EXCHANGE 


MAN,  THE    LIFE    FREE 


MAN,  THE  LIFE  FREE 


By  the  Authors  of 

"Thought  for  Help,"  "Will  Higher  of  God," 

and  "Man's  Life  of  Purpose" 


WILLIAM  C.   COMSTOCK 

Amanuensis 
WITH  A  FOREWORD  BY 

REV.  JOSEPH  A.  MILBURN 

Pastor  First  Congregational  Church,  Chicago 


RICHARD  G.  BADGER 

BOSTON 


Copyright,  1916,  by  William  C.  Comstock 

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EDUC. 

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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER  PAGE 

The  Writer's  Preface vii 

Foreword xv 

Dr.  Coulter's  Preface xxv 

I.     Man,  the  Life  Free 3 

II.     Life  Personal 31 

III.  Max,   Worker   On   Earth    for   Life   Im- 

mortal        43 

IV.  Work  that  Helps  Life 55 

V.     Will  for  Life  Worthy 67 

VI.     Man  Wills   for  Wider   Life   When   He 

Wills  His  Life  Worthy      ....  89 

VII.     Free  Will  Used  Well  Helps  Life     .      .  97 

VIII.     Purpose  of  Life  in  Man 105 

IX.     Will  Free  Wins  for  Life  Freedom   .      .  117 

X.     Will  of  Life  Man  Has 123 

XL     Worth  of  Life  in  Man 129 

XII.     Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose  .       .  1-13 

XIII.  Will  Higher  Rules  Life  While  It  Is     .  163 

XIV.  Will   Higher   Wills  ;   Life   Made   Free 

Fulfills  His  Purpose 169 

XV.     Final  Word 195 


THE  WRITER'S  PREFACE 

IN  the  four  volumes  which  it  has  been  my 
privilege  to  transcribe  at  the  dictation  of  in- 
telligences who  are  in  the  wider  life  beyond 
earth  is  contained  a  word  intended  to  be  help- 
ful to  men's  thinking.  It  is  the  wider  life's  inter- 
pretation of  the  man's  life  in  its  relation  to  the 
Life  who  is  Infinite,  of  the  man's  work  on  earth  in 
its  relation  to  the  whole  work  of  the  self  of  man, 
and  of  the  man's  free  will  and  purpose  in  their 
relation  to  the  Omnipotent  Will  and  Purpose  of 
man's  Maker.  It  is  the  interpretation  of  personal 
selves  who  were  men,  who  have  finished  the  experi- 
ence of  man's  life,  and  have  achieved,  through  that 
experience,  the  personal  worthiness  which  makes 
personal  life  ready  for  its  emancipation  from  earth. 
It  is  the  interpretation  of  those  who  remember  the 
man's  life,  who  remember  what  helped  and  what 
harmed  the  personal  self  in  the  man's  life,  who 
know  what  men  should  be  and  do  to  win  the  life  of 
freedom. 

It  is  the  interpretation  of  those  who  were  deep 
thinkers  while  they  were  men,  who  carried  to  the 
wider  life  minds  disciplined  by  much  thought,  who 


viii  Tlie  Writer's  Preface    ■ 

are  no  longer  limited  as  men  are  to  one  little  world, 
who,  in  the  life  of  broadened  horizon  and  broadened 
powers,  comprehend  as  truth  that  which  men  may- 
only  conjecture.  It  is  the  interpretation  of  those 
who  have  not  only  lived  the  broadest  man's  life,  but 
are  now  living  the  wider  life  which  comes  to  per- 
sonal self  after  earth  life  is  finished  forever.  It 
is  the  testimony  of  those  who  assert  unequivocally 
that  they  have  told  truth.  It  is  the  concurrent  tes- 
timony of  several  witnesses,  each  of  whom  asserts, 
in  his  own  way  and  in  his  own  words,  the  truths 
which  they  all  know.  It  is  given  to  men  that 
it  may  be  a  help  to  wise  thinking  and  wise  living. 
And  he  who  reads  seeking  wisdom  for  his  own 
problem  of  daily  living  and  daily  thinking  will  find 
it  an  unfailing  aid. 

It  would  help  a  man  to  have  faith  in  God,  the 
Creator,  confirmed.  It  is  by  this  word  from  life 
beyond  earth  confirmed.  It  would  help  him  to  have 
faith  in  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  confirmed.  It  is 
by  this  word  confirmed.  It  would  help  him  to 
have  faith  that  God  purposes  for  all  that  He  made 
now  and  forever.  That  faith  is  by  this  word 
taught.  It  would  aid  him  to  have  faith  in  the 
heljifulness  of  worship,  and  thanks,  and  honest 
prayer  confirmed.    It  is  by  this  word  confirmed. 

It  would  help  him  to  believe  in  the  dignity  and 
worth  of  his  personal  self;  to  believe  that  Omnip- 


The  Writer's  Preface  ix 

otent  God  considers  Ins  life  of  self  worthy  His 
teaching;  and  to  believe  that  he,  the  man,  is  able, 
by  his  own  wise  use  of  his  own  powers,  and  of  his 
own  free  choice,  to  fulfill  the  purpose  for  his  life 
while  it  is  on  earth  of  Omnipotent  God.  That  very 
belief  the  word  intends  to  put  into  men's  minds 
and  hearts. 

It  would  help  him  to  find  a  meaning  in  his 
daily  work  that  makes  it  far  more  than  the  mere 
drudgery  of  life  on  earth.  That  meaning  he  will 
find  in  this  word.  It  would  help  him  to  believe 
that  every  hour  of  his  work  well  done  brings  nearer, 
and  every  hour  of  his  work  ill  done  postpones,  his 
higher  life  of  personal  self.  It  would  help  him 
to  believe  that  his  man's  powers,  his  mind,  his  will, 
his  purpose,  his  memory,  those  powers  which  he 
uses  in  his  work,  are  the  powers  which  his  immortal 
life  will  forever  use;  that  as  he  uses  them  his  im- 
mortal life  is  using  them;  and  that  by  his  wise  use 
of  those  powers  his  life  can  be  made  ready  for 
wider  thought  and  work  in  freedom  from  the  little- 
ness and  the  limitations  of  earth.  It  would  help 
him  to  believe  that  when  he  wins  firm  will  and  pur- 
pose, firm  for  his  work  whatever  it  may  be,  and 
firm  to  keep  his  personal  life  worthy,  his  immortal 
self  has  won  firm  will  and  purpose,  and  in  the  life 
beyond  earth  will  hold  them  firm  forever.  These 
very  truths  this  word  teaches  that  men  may  be- 


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lieve  and  use  as  helps  in  daily  life. 

It  would  help  him  to  believe  that,  though  his 
life  is  narrow  and  cramped  and  hedged  in  now,  and 
may  be  so  through  all  this  lifetime  on  earth,  he  can 
choose  to  learn,  in  his  cramped  and  hedged-in  life, 
firm  purpose  that  works  well  and  keeps  life  worthy, 
and  thus  learn  that  which  wins  freedom  from  earth. 
This  word  teaches  that  the  free  life  finds  firm  pur- 
pose when  it  chooses,  and  that  firm  purpose  for 
both  work  and  worthy  life  does  win  the  wider  life 
of  self.  And  it  does  not  teach  that  a  man  need  be 
among  the  great  on  earth  to  win  for  his  life  free- 
dom from   earth.    . 

It  would  help  a  man  to  believe  that  he  is  an  im- 
mortal life  of  personal  self,  that  he,  the  life  of 
self,  will  surely  have  a  broader  personal  life  beyond 
earth,  and  that  the  broader  life  will  begin  when 
this  body  which  is  his  now  dies  if  he,  the  man, 
chooses  well.  The  lives  who  have  won  their  free- 
dom tell  him  that  he  may  so  believe,  and  in  this 
word  they  give  him  the  thought  that  will  help  him 
to  choose  well. 

It  would  help  him  to  believe  that,  in  the  end, 
there  is  no  conflict  between  the  free  will  of  life 
and  the  purpose  of  life's  INIaker;  that  no  life  fails 
in  the  end  to  overcome  weakness  and  unworthiness ; 
that  every  life  will  finally  be  taught  wisdom  to 
choose   that   which    accords   with    God's   purpose. 


The  Writer's  Preface  xi 

This  is  the  cheerful  belief  which  this  word  teaches. 

And  it  would  help  him  to  believe  that  the  sooner 
he,  the  personal  life,  learns  wisdom,  the  more  lenient 
^vill  be  his  teaching;  that  another  life  of  teaching  on 
earth  will  be  a  penalty,  if  he,  knowing  the  wise 
choice,  deliberately  chooses  unwisely.  That  warn- 
ing this  word  gives. 

It  would  help  him  to  have  an  abiding  belief  that, 
in  the  wider  life,  no  longer  limited  in  vision,  in 
thought,  and  in  purpose  as  man  is,  and  with  the 
w^ide  universe  instead  of  this  little  earth  as  work- 
ing place,  his  personal  life  will  grow  broader  and 
fuller  and  wiser  to  immortality.  This  is  the  future 
willed  bj^  God  for  the  life  of  man,  and  that  w^ider 
life  of  growth  begins  when  man  himself,  by  his 
own  will  and  purpose,  has  won  for  his  life  its  free- 
dom. This  is  the  vital,  energizing  thought  w^hich 
this  word  gives  as  truth.  God's  purpose  for  the 
life  whom  He  made  personal  self  is,  and  must  be, 
fulfilled  by  the  life's  own  free  w^ill. 

These  are  some  of  the  helpful  thoughts  which  the 
man  who  reads  this  word  seeking  aid  wdll  find. 

And,  pondering  these  thoughts  and  others  which 
this  word  suggests,  one  may  find  an  ideal  of  the 
man's  life  that  is  worth  trying  to  realize — a  man's 
life  that  is  firm  in  faith  in  God,  in  Christ,  in  the 
help  of  worship  and  thanks  and  prayer;  firm  in 
faith  in  immortality  of  the  personal  self;  firm  in 


xii  The  Writer's  Preface 

faith  in  the  wisdom  and  love  of  God's  purpose;  a 
life  thankful  that  God  made  man  free  and  teaches 
him  the  value  and  dignity  of  personal  freedom;  a 
life  which,  understanding  the  meaning  of  earth- 
work and  experience,  is  firm  to  do  the  man's  part 
in  the  fulfillment  of  God's  purpose  that  the  per- 
sonal self  win  wider  life  through  its  own  free  and 
firm  use  of  the  means  w4iich  He  places  within  its 
grasp. 

And  that  this  word  is  in  very  truth  from  those 
personalities  in  the  other  world  who  have  named 
themselves  to  me  I  believe  with  a  firm  faith.  That 
the  word  has  not  come  through  my  own  will  to 
think  I  know.  That  it  is  not  wi'itten  in  words  of 
my  choosing  I  know.  I  have  schooled  myself  to  be 
the  attentive  scribe,  whose  duty  is  to  hear  and 
transcribe  the  thought  given  in  the  very  words  in 
which  it  is  given.  The  thought  is  foreign  to  that 
which  was  my  habit  of  thinking  before  I  took  up 
this  work  at  Dr.  Coulter's  suggestion.  The 
knowledge  shown  in  the  word  is  not  knowledge 
which  I  possessed.  The  way  of  presenting  the 
thought  is  not  my  way  of  speaking  or  writing.  I 
have  chosen  neither  the  thought  nor  the  wording, 
and  I  have  not  stated  as  facts  the  figments  of  my 
own  imagination.  I  have  been  the  scribe,  and  only 
the  scribe.  I  have  not  sat  down  to  my  work  as 
scribe  in  a  mental  haze,  or  under  mental  hallucina- 


The  Writer's  Preface  xiii 

tion,  or  in  hours  of  mental  exaltation,  but  calmly, 
and  in  every  way  normally  conscious,  wishing  to 
give  to  the  words  dictated  to  my  mental  hearing 
the  same  dispassionate  but  close  attention  that  a 
good  scribe  should  give  to  words  orally  dictated, 
and  heard  through  the  physical  ear. 

And  that  the  word  thus  given  will  help  him  who 
reads  it  thoughtfully  I  believe  with  as  firm  a  faith. 
It  has  helped  me  more  than  I  can  tell.  May  God 
give  it  His  blessing,  that  it  may  live  to  be  a  help 
for  many. 

William  C.  Comstock. 

Auditorium  Hotel,  Chicago, 
May,  WIG. 


FOREWORD 

THIS  book  on  "IMan,  the  Life  Free" 
makes  a  threefold  appeal  to  the  critical 
student  of  the  mysteries  of  religion  and 
psj^chology.  First,  it  is  arresting  by  virtue 
of  the  dignity  and  seriousness  of  its  subject  matter. 
Its  master  theme  is  "the  free  life" — the  life  that 
emancipates  itself,  by  the  earnest  effort  of  the 
spirit,  from  the  limitations  of  this  mundane  sphere. 
It  is  the  faith  of  the  writer  of  this  volume  that  man 
has  to  work  out  his  salvation,  if  not  "with  fear  and 
trembling,"  at  least  by  the  persistent  pressure  of 
his  will  toward  the  things  that  are  of  eternal  worth 
and  beauty. 

One  of  the  notable  teachings  of  this  book  is  that 
redemption  lies  in  the  synthesis  of  the  will  of  man 
and  the  will  of  the  Eternal.  And,  indeed,  I  know 
of  no  better  solution  of  the  enigma  of  a  human  free- 
dom that  must  be  wrought  out  within  the  auto- 
cratic operation  of  the  sovereign  will  of  God  than 
is  to  be  found  in  this  volume.  Its  theology  is 
Pauline.  Its  philosophy  enthrones  the  sovereignty 
of  God  with  the  reverence  that  we  find  in  the 
teachings  of  Augustine  and  Calvin.     It  magnifies 


xvi  Foreword 

the  divine  will  and  assigns  to  it  an  absolute  regency 
ovxr  the  affairs  of  time  and  of  humanity;  and  yet 
it  conserves,  with  a  loving  solicitude,  the  freedom 
of  the  individual  to  expedite  or  to  retard  the  great 
matter  of  his  personal  salvation. 

It  is  remarkable  how  meagre  the  literature  is 
that  pertains  to  the  will  in  its  bearing  upon  man's 
career,  and  in  its  relationship  to  the  accomplish- 
ment of  his  destiny.  There  has  been  much  writ- 
ten, in  every  school  of  theology,  with  the  purpose 
of  harmonizing,  in  a  metaphysical  synthesis,  the 
divine  and  human  wills;  but  ovu'  literature  is  sur- 
prisingly barren  in  treatises  that  emphasize  the 
dynamic  power  of  the  will  and  how  vital  the  will 
is,  not  only  to  the  realization  of  our  talents,  but 
to  the  felicity  of  life.  Apart  from  the  series  of 
volumes  for  which  this  author  is  indirectly  respon- 
sible, I  know  of  only  two  treatises  that  sufficiently 
accent  the  will  as  an  ethical  force — "The  Victory 
of  the  Will,"  by  Victor  Charbonnel,  and  "The  Will 
to  Believe,"  by  William  James.  It  is  a  singular 
omission,  for  surely  if  anything  distinguishes  man 
as  man  it  is  the  power  and  the  faculty  of  the  will.  In 
the  sphere  of  the  intelligence,  man  differs  from  the 
lower  organisms  only  in  the  matter  of  the  degree 
and  the  extent  of  the  operation  of  his  psychic  ener- 
gies. The  dog  reasons,  as  man  reasons.  The  dog 
is  endowed  with  memory,  as  man  is  endowed  with 


Foreword  xvii 

memory.  The  dog  is  actuated  by  the  mstinct  of 
futurity,  as  man  is  actuated  by  the  instinct  of  fu- 
turity. In  the  sphere  of  the  emotions,  man  is  one 
in  kind  with  the  world  beneath  hiin,  and  differs 
from  the  lowly  creatures  that  surround  him  only 
in  the  quality  and  the  compass  of  his  passions  and 
affections.  The  fidelity  of  a  friend  to  a  friend  in 
the  human  world  does  not  surpass  the  fidelity  of 
the  dog  to  its  master.  The  lioness  defends  her 
whelps  with  a  passion  of  affection  and  an  audacity 
of  courage  that  equal  the  highest  fealty  of  the  hu- 
man mother  to  her  progeny. 

The  thing  that  distinguishes  man  is  the  will. 
It  is  the  will  that  makes  or  mars  him.  It  is  the 
will  tha,t  crowns  or  discrowns  him.  It  is  in  and 
through  the  will  that  he  has  his  apotheosis  or  his 
dethronement.  However  rigidly  logical  the  dem- 
onstrations of  the  school  of  moral  fatalists  may  be ; 
however  we  may  be  inclined,  from  the  point  of 
view  of  pure  intellect,  to  assent  to  its  metaphysical 
conclusions,  as  a  matter  of  practical  living,  we  are 
all  believers  in  the  freedom  of  the  human  will.  The 
position  of  every  thoughtful  man  is  the  position 
taken  by  the  great  Dr.  Johnson,  who  said,  in  sub- 
stance, "I  may  not  be  able  to  refute  the  arguments 
of  the  necessarian  philosophy — the  philosophy  of  a 
predestined  conduct  determined  by  a  predestined 
character — but  when  all  is  said,  I  know  that  I  am 


xviii  Foreword 

free."  This  seems  to  me  to  be  at  once  the  doctrine 
of  experience  and  the  doctrine  of  common  sense. 
The  will  is  the  great  motive  power  of  hmiian  life. 
It  lies  at  the  base  of  all  intellectual  culture.  We 
do  not  find  knowledge  thrust  upon  us.  We  have 
to  appropriate  it.  We  have  to  select  our  environ- 
ment and  also  be  critical  of  our  intellectual  nourish- 
ment, if  we  are  to  attain  those  qualities  of  thought, 
instinct  and  taste,  the  synmietry,  the  proportion 
and  the  charm  that  we  associate  with  the  accom- 
plishment of  intellectual  culture.  Culture  is  will 
operating  in  the  sphere  of  light. 

We  are  beginning  to  realize,  also,  how  greatly 
the  beatitude  of  life,  its  felicity  and  its  fruitfulness 
in  the  matter  of  pleasant  and  agreeable  experiences, 
is  dependent  upon  our  habitual  volition.  The  joy 
of  life  is  not,  as  we  have  been  prone  to  think,  a 
temperamental  quality.  It  is  a  moral  achievement 
that  has  its  origin  in  a  moral  virtue.  We  create 
happiness  by  the  magical  efficacy  of  the  will  in- 
telligently applied  to  the  problem  of  life,  as  the 
sun  creates  beauty  in  the  flower  through  the  appli- 
cation of  its  marvelous  chemistry  to  air,  moisture 
and  soil.  The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  within  us,  and 
its  inmost  habitation  is  the  faculty  of  the  will. 

And  the  greatest  of  all  of  our  attainments,  the 
clear  and  certain  vision  of  the  spiritual  verities,  lies 
at  the  command  of  our  will.     We  think  of  the 


Foreword  xix 

mystical  consciousness  as  an  endowment,  a  gift, 
as  having  its  roots  in  ancestral  tendencies,  and  its 
inspirations  in  the  special  environment  with  which 
it  may  be  surrounded — and,  no  doubt,  tempera- 
ment, education  and  circumstances  have  their  part 
to  play  in  the  spiritual  as  in  the  intellectual  life — 
but  as  intellectual  culture  has  its  foundation  chiefly 
in  the  will,  so  has  the  spiritual  or  mystical  con- 
sciousness also  its  foundation  chiefly  in  the  will. 
The  great  Master  of  Israel  tells  us  that  the  will  is 
the  source  of  spiritual  vision.  "If  ye  do  His" 
(God's)  "will,  ye  shall  know  the  doctrine."  Will 
is  the  way  of  holiness.  Will  is  the  key  that  un- 
locks the  door  that  opens  into  "the  house  of  many 
mansions."  "Whosoever  will,  let  him  come  and 
drink  of  the  water  of  life  freely."  The  cardinal 
theme  of  this  volume  is  the  glorification  of  the  hu- 
man will  and  the  power  that  inheres  in  it,  through 
systematic  and  steady  application,  to  achieve  "the 
freed  life" — the  life  whose  element  is  an  ethereal 
world  in  which  vision  is  more  immediately  in  con- 
tact with  truth  and  the  spirit  more  perfectly  en 
rapport  with  the  will  of  the  Eternal  than  it  is  upon 
this  earth  plane. 

The  will  lies  at  the  root  of  all  material  prosperity, 
all  culture,  all  accomplishment,  all  art,  all  civiliza- 
tion, all  spiritual  vision,  and  the  highest  of  all 
achievements — the  beauty  of  holiness.    And  to  this 


XX  Foreword 

volume  belongs  the  distinction  of  recognizing  the 
divine  value,  the  eternal  and  infinite  importance  of 
the  highest  of  all  human  faculties — the  will. 

There  is  yet  a  further  virtue  that  stands  out  in 
the  teaching  of  this  unusual  book.  It  affirms  a 
universal  salvation.  There  are  no  hopeless  fail- 
ures in  the  divine  process  of  discipline,  in  the  divine 
education  of  humanity.  Man  may  limp  on  his  way 
to  the  City  of  God;  his  progress  may  be  slow  and 
involve  many  rebellions  with  sequential  chastise- 
ments, but  he  is  ultimately  bound  to  reach  his  des- 
tination. There  are  no  irreclaimables  in  all  the  vast 
host  of  humankind.  Everj?^  child  of  God  is  sal- 
vable,  and  every  prodigal — however  far  he  may 
have  wandered,  however  tardy  his  return — comes 
home  at  last.  The  w^ay  is  more  arduous  for  some 
than  for  others,  but  all  reach  the  goal.  When  the 
day  is  done,  "the  whole  pile  will  be  complete."  It  is 
a  noble  gospel — a  gospel  that  the  Church  much 
needs  to  lay  to  heart ;  a  gospel  which,  when  taught 
with  a  firm  faith  and  a  high  courage  by  the  Church, 
will  do  much  toward  restoring  Christianity  to  its 
rightful  place  in  the  thought  and  reverence  of 
mankind. 

The  second  reason  why  this  volume  is  of  unusual 
interest  is  because  of  its  appeal  to  those  who  are 
interested  in  the  problems  of  psychology.  The 
writer  tells  us  that  he  is  merely  an  amanuensis. 


Forexoord  xxi 

The  style  of  the  book  is  not  his  style.  The  phi- 
losophy of  the  book  is  not  his  philosophy.  The 
structure  and  the  order  of  it  lie  quite  beyond  the 
deliberate  and  purposive  action  of  his  mind.  He  is 
the  echo  of  a  voice.  The  word,  articulate  and  audi- 
ble to  the  inner  ear,  comes  to  him  and  he  writes  it, 
consciously,  though  in  implicit  obedience  to  a  power 
not  his  own,  and  to  an  intelligence  that  he  believes 
to  be  higher  than  himself. 

The  frivolous  world,  or  the  world  that  interprets 
everything  in  the  terms  of  matter,  and  that  con- 
fines its  faith  to  what  it  tastes  and  sees  and  feels 
and  hears  with  the  physical  senses,  flouts  all  sug- 
gestion of  the  intervention  of  higher  intelligences. 
Spiritism  is  laughed  at  and  scorned  as  an  aberra- 
tion of  the  mind  of  those  addicted  to  it.  Yet  the 
great  masters  of  the  world  of  thought  have  be- 
lieved in  the  intervention  of  the  higher  intelli- 
gences in  the  affairs  of  time.  The  Old  and  the 
New  Testaments  are  saturated  with  psychical  phe- 
nomena— the  apparitions  and  voices  of  angelic  mes- 
sengers and  guardian  angels.  St.  Paul  believed 
in  the  actuality  of  these  spirit  messengers  and  me- 
diators— so  did  St.  John,  and  so  did  Jesus  of  Naza- 
reth. The  history  of  the  Christian  church  is  rich 
with  the  stories  of  the  visions  and  the  voices  of  its 
canonized  saints.  It  is  not  difficult  for  one  who 
has  an  acute  spiritual  consciousness  to  believe  in 


xxii  Foreword 

the  intercalation  of  the  two  worlds — the  worlds 
visible  and  invisible.  They  belong  to  each  other, 
as  the  earth  and  the  sky  belong  to  each  other.  And 
to  my  mind,  faith  in  immortality  and  faith  in  spirit 
intervention  rise  or  fall  together.  If  man  be  im- 
mortal, if  his  spirit  survive  the  shock  of  death,  it 
is  entirely  logical  that  his  spirit  should  seek  to 
come  in  touch  with  those  with  whom  its  interests, 
its  loves,  its  devotions  have  been  bound  up  on  this 
earth  plane.  The  logic  of  immortality  is  clairaudi- 
ence,  clairvoyance,  inspirational  writing  and  the 
intervention,  for  great  ethical  and  spiritual  pur- 
poses, of  the  angelic  hosts  in  the  affairs  of  time 
and  in  the  crucial  hours  of  the  historic  and  indi- 
vidual life  of  mankind. 

I  close  this  brief  foreword  with  a  testimony  in 
regard  to  the  writer  of  this  book,  who  has  been 
a  dear  friend  of  mine  for  many  years.  I  have 
known  him  with  great  intimacy  and  affection 
through  those  j^ears,  and  I  have  known  him  to 
honor  him  with  the  lengthening  of  the  days  and 
the  enlargement  of  the  contact  of  my  spirit  with 
his  spirit.  He  is  a  man  of  marked  sagacity,  most 
successful  in  the  business  to  which  he  has  devoted 
his  talents;  of  rarely  noble  and  beautiful  ideals  of 
life  and  conduct — a  man  of  the  highest  and  the  fin- 
est integrity.  I  would  accept  his  word  in  every  situ- 
ation as  a  word  of  perfect  and  entire  truth.    And 


Foreword  xxiii 

when  he  tells  me  that  the  message  of  this  book  has 
come  to  him  from  celestial  intelligences  with  whom 
he  is  in  touch  and  communion — that  the  words  of 
this  book  are  their  words ;  that  the  thoughts  of  this 
book  are  their  thoughts ;  that  the  philosophy  of  this 
book  is  their  philosophy;  that  the  morality  of  this 
book  is  their  morality — I  believe  him  with  the  same 
absoluteness  of  faith  that  I  give  to  him  when  he 
speaks  to  me  of  the  simplest  affairs  of  life  within 
the  compass  of  my  own  experience  and  under- 
standing. 

Joseph  Anthony  Milburn. 


DR.  COULTER'S  PREFACE 

WE  who  wish  by  our  thought  to  help 
men  know  that  the  word  we  have  told 
is  truth.  We  tell  of  man,  the  life, 
who  fulfills  by  his  free  will  the  pur- 
pose of  God,  his  Maker.  The  life  of  man  wills  of 
free  will  both  on  earth  and  forever.  Man  who  wills 
of  free  will  then,  wins  the  worth  which  God  pur- 
poses for  life  on  earth.  Will  Higher,  life's  Maker, 
wills  how  life  become  worthy  wider  life.  Man 
who  wills  of  free  will  is  life  who  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose, but  life  who  fulfills  God's  purpose  wills  for 
worth  of  free  will.  Will  free,  then,  man's  willed 
power,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  man's  Maker,  God. 
Will  for  life  worthy  He  who  makes  life  free  pur- 
poses that  life  find  while  it  wills  as  man.  Then 
that  will  man,  the  life,  finally  finds.  When  that 
worth  which  God  purposes  for  life  on  earth  is  by 
free  will  won  He  translates  life  to  higher  life.  Will 
free  God  wills  to  man,  for  he  makes  man  personal 
life.  When  the  personal  worth  which  God  wills 
that  life  find  as  man  is  by  man's  free  will  won, 
God  translates  life  to  wider  personal  life.  That 
wider  life  wills  of  free  will  its  worth.     God  pur- 


xxvi  Dr.  Coulter's  Preface 

poses  for  life  that  wills  of  free  will  forever  worth 
finally  for  His  presence.  The  worth  which  man 
wills  wins  for  life  its  first  wider  life.  The  will 
which  man  uses,  life's  free  will,  wins  for  life  that 
worth  which  fits  it  finally  for  its  Maker's  presence. 
Wlien  life  has  won  first  wider  life  it  finds,  by  the 
free  will  which  was  made  firm  by  man,  the  wider 
and  wider  worth  purposed  by  God  when  He  made 
life  personal  self.  Will  free  wins  life's  first  worth, 
will  free  wins  life's  worth  forever.  When  life  free 
of  will  wins  worth  that  fits  it  for  God's  presence 
will  free  has  won  the  worth  which  God  purposed 
from  the  willing  of  all.  Will  free,  life's  power, 
makes  life  worthy  forever. 

Man  who  wills  to-day,  think  well.  This  life 
wills  firmly.  Will  firm  that  life  wins  as  man  that 
life  holds  firm  forever.    Think,  O  man,  think  well. 


I 

MAN,  THE  FREE  LIFE 


MAN,  THE  FREE  LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WE,  the  lives  who  won  wider  life 
through  wise  use  of  free  will  and 
purpose,  would  help  men  to  under- 
standing of  the  life  which  they  live. 
Man  is  the  life  personal  who  wins  this  wider  life. 
His  free  will  he  uses  while  life  wills  on  earth.  He 
wills  for  that  life  wider  which  God  purposes  for 
personal  self.  When  he  wishes  his  will  makes  life 
personal  worthy  the  wider  life,  then,  for  he  wills  the 
worth  of  life  while  it  is  man.  His  firm  free  will  he 
uses  when  he  wishes  for  worth;  his  wise  free  will 
wins  for  personal  life  the  worth  for  wider  life ;  man 
who  wills  of  free  will  fulfills  by  that  free  will  God's 
purpose. 

Will  Higher  made  man  life.  His  purpose  man, 
the  life  made,  fulfills.  His  purpose  that  which  is 
the  universe  made  by  Him  fulfills.  Man  wills  by 
will  given  by  Him.  That  which  He  purposes  the 
life  given  will  free  by  Him  fulfills.  How  then  has 
life  free  will?  Life  is  willed  by  its  Maker  to  will 
as  He  wills  using  free  will  its  own.    Then  free  will, 

3 


4  Man,  The  Life  Free 

though  free,  fulfills  finally  the  purpose  of  Him  who 
gives  it.  Free  will,  which  man  uses  as  he  wishes, 
wins  the  worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  for  life 
of  man.  When  man  by  free  will  wins  worth,  he  thus 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  Him  who  makes  life  free. 
When  by  man's  free  will  life  wins  wider  life,  man 
has  won  it. 

Man,  the  life  free,  wills  for  worth  finally,  for 
thus  God  purposes.  But  life  free  wills  for  worth 
when  it  chooses.  Then  life  chooses  finally  to  will 
for  worth,  thus,  by  free  will,  fulfilling  God's  pur- 
pose. Then  life  who  wills  weakly  fulfills  not  His 
purpose ;  that  follows  of  necessity.  The  worth  pur- 
posed by  God  life  must  find,  for  Will  Higher  is 
Omnipotent  Will.  How  then  may  life  which  must 
will  for  worth  choose  to  will  weakly,  or  unworthily  ? 
Man,  the  life,  is  made  free  by  Him  who  wills  that 
life  shall  win  worth.  Man,  then,  wills  for  worth 
choosing  worth  finally,  thus  by  his  free  will  ful- 
filling the  must  for  life  on  earth. 

A¥ill  free  life  uses  while  it  works  the  man's 
work.  When  life,  willing  freely,  finishes  man's 
work,  God  frees  it  from  the  world  of  man's  life. 
Then  man,  who  is  life,  wins  freedom  by  his  will. 
His  purpose  who  made  life  free  is  by  the  willed 
free  will  fulfilled.  Man,  being  life  immortal,  wills 
for  life  immortal.  His  free  will  wins  the  life's 
worth  while  life  wills  there  on  earth.     Man  then, 


Man,  the  Free  Life  5 

life  immortal,  wins  by  his  free  will  the  freedom 
purposed  for  life  by  God.  Man  wills  as  he  wishes. 
Then  when  man  wishes  life  finds  worth  for  free- 
dom. What  word  for  help,  man  of  earth!  Heed 
it  well. 

Man  who  wills  for  life  wider  wills  as  life  pur- 
posed life  wider.  That  will  which  life  finds  free, 
that  will  which  He  who  made  life  gives  to  life  of 
man,  fulfills  the  purpose  for  life  of  its  Wilier. 
While  life  wills  that  which  it  wishes,  life 
wills  by  willed  power.  While  life  purposes 
for  itself  its  worth,  that  worth  is  by  God 
purposed.  That  which  life  finds  free  pur- 
pose its  own  fulfills  finally  the  higher  purpose 
of  life's  Wilier.  Man  wills  for  life  by  will  given 
then ;  by  will  given  he  wins  the  worth  which  Higher 
Will  purposes  that  life  while  it  is  man  shall  find. 
Life,  though  free,  was  made  for  worth,  purposed 
worth  found  by  will  free,  and  life  which  wills  that 
which  it  wishes  wills,  while  it  is  man,  that  which 
Higher  Will  purposes,  the  worth  which  wins  life 
wider.  For  life  Will  Higher  purposes  while  it  is. 
Man  first  wills  for  life ;  man  begins  life  of  personal 
self.  While  that  hfe  wills  for  itself,  while  that  life 
wills  of  free  will,  that  free  will  fulfills  the  Pur- 
pose who  made  life  free.  When  will  free  wins  for 
life  worth  for  life  wider,  life  free  has  fulfilled  God's 
purpose  for  it.    While  man,  the  life  while  it  is  on 


6  3Iaih  The  Life  Free 

Ccirth,  Avills  that  which  lie  wishes  he,  as  hfe,  ^vills 
that  which  God  purposes  that  life  on  earth  shall 
will,  ^lan  then,  who  wills  that  which  he  wishes, 
finally  wishes  that  which  Will  Higher  purposes, 
and  life  free  of  will  by  free  will  fulfills  the  purpose 
of  Him  who  made  it  free. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  whom  He  made  free. 
INIan,  the  life  to  whom  He  gives  free  will,  by  that 
free  power  fulfills  His  purpose.  His  purpose 
which  life  fulfills  is  that  life  free  win  life  wider. 
All  lives  win  wider  life.  Then  finally  the  life  who 
wills  using  free  will  fulfills  His  purpose.  But  what 
has  life  for  help  to  fulfill  God's  purpose? 
JNIan's  will,  his  free  will,  for  by  that  free 
power  life  fulfills  God's  purpose.  Will  free 
helps  life  then.  For  man  this  thought  will  help 
when  he  thinks.  Will  free  helps  life  when  the  life 
chooses.  Purposed  to  become  help,  well  used  fi- 
nally by  life  because  He  who  gives  free  will  teaches 
life  wisdom,  life's  free  will,  well  and  wisely  used 
by  man,  fulfills  the  purpose  for  life  on  earth  of  its 
Wilier.  Help  men  to  understand,  we  pray  Thee, 
O  God. 

Man  who  wills  of  free  will  has  the  purpose  for 
his  life  of  Higher  Will  to  fulfill.  His  will,  though 
free,  must  then,  since  Higher  Will  must  be  fulfilled. 
What  then  is  man's  will?  Power  made  man's 
power  as  life  who  must.    But  that  makes  life  not 


31  an,  the  Free  Life  7 

free.  No,  life  is  wholly  free.  jNIaii  wills,  while 
his  hfe  works  on  earth,  as  life  which  has  God's  pur- 
pose to  fulfill,  yet  wills  as  he  wishes.  Then  the  must 
of  God's  purpose  will  be  finally  fulfilled  by  the  life 
who  is  free.  Man  is  that  life.  Then  while  life  is 
man  it  fulfills  God's  purpose.  But  free  life  wills 
for  worth  if  it  thus  wishes.  The  man  who  wills 
for  life  wills  for  life  its  worth;  the  life  w^ho  wills 
as  man  finally  fulfills  God's  purpose;  the  will 
which  is  made  life's  power,  free  will,  fulfills  finally 
the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  life  free.  Taught 
life  is  while  it  wills  on  earth  wisdom  in  use  of  free 
will.  The  taught  life  fulfills  the  purpose  of  its 
Maker.  Man  wills  for  worth  finally ;  rather  the  life 
while  it  is  man  finally  wills,  using  free  will  always, 
the  worth  which  it  must  by  the  purpose  of  its 
Maker.  Man  wills  as  life.  Life  frees  itself  then 
from  man  when  it  walls  for  worth,  choosing  for 
itself  that  will.  We  who  live  the  wider  life  thus 
won  it.    Think,  man  who  is  free,  think. 

Will  Higher  made  life  for  earth  man.  His  will 
the  life  obeys  using  the  free  will  which  He  makes 
life's  power.  His  will  life  fulfills  by  the  way  He 
purposes,  by  wise  use  of  the  free  will  with  which 
He  endows  life.  Man,  who  has  from  Him  life, 
wills  by  the  will  He  gives.  Life  willed  worth  finds 
worth  itself,  using  the  will  He  gives.  Life  willed 
wider  life  wins  that  wider  life  by  its  free  will.  Man 


8  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

who  wills  for  life  has  the  will  which  God  makes 
life's  will.  Thus  man  wills  for  life  with  will  be- 
longing to  life  itself.  Then  this  man  who  wills 
using  life's  free  will  has  the  must  of  life  to  fulfill? 
No,  this  man  wills  for  that  which  he  wishes. 
Whether  for  worth  or  unworthiness  he  chooses  for 
himself.  Then  will  which  God  makes  life's  free 
power  man  may  use  not  well.  That  power  is  willed 
to  life  as  free  power ;  life  wills  always  as  it  wishes ; 
yet  life  which  has  for  must  to  fulfill  God's  will 
wins  finally  the  worth  which  it  must  win,  for  He 
who  wills  free  will  teaches  free  will.  Have  we 
made  you  understand,  Man  who  reads? 

Man,  who  lives  his  life  willing  for  that  which  he 
wishes,  has  his  free  will  by  the  purpose  of  his 
Maker.  Then  the  purpose  for  man  of  his  Maker 
is  to  be  fulfilled  by  man's  free  will.  But  life 
free  of  will  wills  weakly  perhaps.  Would  that 
fulfill  the  purpose  of  life's  Maker?  That  weak 
use  of  the  will  which  God  gives  man  himself 
chooses.  Will  free  may  be  weakly  used  then,  yet 
finally  life  of  man  fulfill  the  purpose  for  it  of  its 
Maker?  Yes,  life  wills  for  wider  life  when  man 
has  learned  the  lesson  which  God  purposes  that 
man  shall  learn,  the  M^se  use  of  free  will.  But 
this  man  wills  for  unAvorthiness  while  he  thus  wishes. 
This  man  is  but  part  of  life  immortal.  Then  this 
man  may  will  unwortliily  yet  life  immortal  will 


Man,  the  Free  Life  9 

for  worth  finally.  That  thought  we  tell  for  help. 
You  who  know  that  will  is  free  win  for  life  the 
wider  life  when  by  your  free  will  you  make  life 
worthy.  You,  as  life,  will  fulfill  God's  purpose. 
Why  not  will  for  worth  this  time  of  life  on  earth? 
Think  what  this  tells — man  who  wills  for  worth 
frees  life  immortal  from  earth.  Have  the  words 
helped  you,  man  who  lives  earth  life?  Think  well, 
O  man,  think  well. 

Man,  the  life  free,  wills  his  worth  when  he  wishes ; 
but  life,  though  made  free,  has  God's  purpose  to 
fulfill.  Man,  the  life  free,  wins  his  worth  by  will 
his  own;  yet  life  owns  that  power  which  man  uses 
for  his  worth.  Man,  the  life  free,  wins  his  worth 
through  his  wise  use  of  his  work  and  life  of  man; 
but  his  work,  his  life,  are  the  work  and  life  of  per- 
sonal self  on  earth.  Man,  the  life  free,  has  for 
help  in  his  winning  the  worth  purposed  by  his 
Maker,  God,  the  free  power  of  personal  self;  but 
that  power,  though  free,  finally  fulfills  the  purpose 
of  God.  While  man  wills  on  earth  his  power  is 
free;  while  life  wills,  whether  there  on  earth  or 
here  in  the  wider  life,  the  power,  will,  is  free;  yet 
all  life  wins  the  worth  purposed  by  God.  Will 
free,  then,  fulfills  for  life  God's  purpose.  Will 
free  wins  for  life  the  wider,  fuller  life  purposed 
when  by  Will  Higher  life  was  made.  Think,  who 
use  now  that  free  power.    By  wise  use,  which  man 


10  Man,  The  Life  Free 

himself  chooses,  for  the  life  was  made  free,  you 
win  the  worth  for  wider  life.  Think,  man  of  free 
will,  think. 

Man,  the  free  life,  fulfills  God's  purpose,  hut 
by  his  free  choice  he  makes  his  life  worthy.  Man,  the 
free  life,  wins  by  his  will  the  higher  life  purposed 
by  God.  For  life  free  man  wills,  yet  that  life  is 
by  Higher  Purpose  bound.  The  life  free  has  for 
must  to  will  that  worth  which  wins  higher  life. 
Man,  the  life  free,  has  for  his  must  to  win  freedom 
for  his  life.  Man,  the  life  free,  by  his  wise  use  of 
his  free  will  fulfills  God's  purpose  that  his  life  win 
higher  life.  Man  who  has  life  to  free,  what  use 
do  you  make  of  your  free  will?  Your  life  must 
win  worth,  for  God  thus  purposes.  You  are  free 
to  choose  when  this  life  fulfills  God's  purpose.  The 
wise  life  chooses  quickly,  the  unwise  life  chooses 
late;  but  that  which  God  piu'poses  life  free  fulfills 
finally.  That  higher  life  which  God  purposes  will 
be  won  by  life  free.  Choose  then  this  time  of  life 
on  earth,  man  who  has  free  life.  Your  wise  choice 
wins  the  higher,  happier  life  of  freedom.  Think 
well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher  made  life  free;  then  man,  who  is 
life  for  earth,  is  free.  Will  Higher  wills  that  life 
win  by  free  will  its  worth  for  wider  life;  then  man 
wills  the  worth  for  life  wider  than  earth.  When 
will  free  wins  the  worth  which  Higher  Will  pur- 


31  an,  the  Free  Life  11 

poses  for  life  on  earth  tliat  will  free  fulfills  the 
purpose  of  life's  Maker.  When  life  free  wins  the 
worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes,  that  worth 
frees  life  from  earth.  When  man,  then,  wills  that 
his  life  be  worthy,  he  thus  wins  for  his  life  immortal 
the  wider  life,  freed  from  man's  weakness,  full  of 
firm  purpose  for  life  worthy,  willing  then  while 
it  lasts  for  its  worth  firmly.  What  hope  this  gives 
to  men!  What  help  this  word  will  be  depends  on 
the  man  himself.    Think,  O  man,  think  well. 

By  what  purpose  would  life  win  freedom  then? 
By  man's  free  purpose  well  and  firmly  used  for 
life  worthy.  You  who  read,  will  for  life  firmly, 
purpose  firmly  for  life  worthy,  for  thus  your  free 
will  and  purpose  make  your  life  worthy  wider  fuller 
life.  Then  this  man  wins  freedom  for  his  life  if 
he  thus  wishes. 

Man  who  wills  of  free  will  has  the  purpose  of 
his  Maker  to  fulfill.  Then,  by  free  will  man  wins 
the  worth  of  life  which  his  Maker  purposes.  When 
by  free  will  man  wins  that  worth  which  fits  life 
for  freedom  God  frees  the  hfe  from  earth  and  man. 
What  happy  thought  this  for  men!  This  thought 
will  help  when  weak  purpose  threatens  to  harm  life. 
When  by  free  will  man  makes  his  Hfe  worthy  his 
free  will  wins  for  life  freedom  from  earth  forever. 
Think,  man  who  wills  to-day.  Wise  free  will  wins 
for  life  freedom.    That  wise  free  will  God  purposes 


12  Man,  The  Life  Free 

that  life  find,  yet  life  finds  it  by  man's  free  choice. 
Think  well,  O  man. 

Man,  the  free  life  personal  who  has  for  will  the 
will  of  life  itself,  wills  that  life  immortal  find  worth 
for  the  wider  life  which  God  purposes  for  life 
immortal.  Man,  the  free  life,  wills  that  immortal 
life  win  this  happy  life  of  freedom  by  willing  that 
man  be  worthy.  What  for  life  whom  He  made 
wills  its  Maker,  God?  That  will  be  free  forever; 
that  will  free  of  life  fulfill  His  purpose  for  life; 
that  man  who  wills  for  life  personal  win  by  his 
life  worthy  the  wider  life  which  personal  self  is 
purposed  by  God.  When  the  life  wills  as  God 
wills  He  frees  that  life  from  earth.  When  free 
will  becomes  the  help  for  life  which  He  purposes 
that  it  become  life  wins  freedom  and  this  happy 
life.     Think,  man  who  wills  as  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  was  when  life  of 
man  was  not.  His  purpose  was,  when  life  of  man 
was  willed,  formed  for  that  life.  His  will  that 
life  has  for  its  must  to  obey.  His  will  that  life 
finally  fulfills  with  the  power,  free  will,  which  He 
gives  to  that  life.  Man  who  wills  as  he  pleases  is 
life  that  must  fulfill  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will. 
Man  who  works  as  he  wishes  is  life  that  finally  is 
taught  by  work.  The  purpose  of  Higher  Will 
life  fulfills  while  it  is  man;  while  life  is  it  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  its  Maker.    Man  who  lives  the  weak 


Math  the  Free  Life  13 

life  of  earth  is  life  purposed  wider  life  won  by  his 
free  will.  Man,  the  life  of  little  worth  until  it  is 
taught  by  Higher  Purpose,  is  life  worthy  finally 
His  presence.  God  wills  for  the  hfe  that  He  made 
that  worth.  That  worth,  though  the  worth  of  free 
life,  finally  makes  the  life  worthy  its  INIaker's 
presence.  We  who  live  the  wider  life  know  that 
we  tell  truth.  Hear  and  heed  the  word,  men  of 
earth. 

Bishop  Wilber force. 

Man  who  lives  his  earth  life  willing  for  life  wider 
has  for  help  the  free  will  that  Will  Higher  makes 
his  power.  But  man  wills  not  always  well.  His 
life  wills  as  he  wills.  He  wins  the  life  wider  which 
Higher  Will  purposes  for  personal  self  wisely 
using  his  own  free  will.  Then  life  who  finds  worth 
for  wider  life  using  free  will  fulfills  thus  the  pur- 
pose of  Will  Higher.  Man,  the  life,  wins  wider 
life,  not  man  the  physical.  What  food  for  thought 
here,  O  men!  Wise  the  man  who  heeds  our  word. 
His  free  will  he  will  then  use  well,  and  his  life 
will  find  the  wider  life. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  that  free 
will  made  man's  power  win  for  life  of  man  the 
freedom  willed  for  life  personal  when  life  was 
willed  into  being.  Then  man  wills  for  life  who 
must  find  worth,  but  when  life  finds  worth  the  man 


14  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

chooses,  for  he  is  life  free.  Then  man  who,  freely 
willing,  wins  the  worth  which  Will  Higher  pur- 
poses for  life  on  earth  fulfills  His  purpose.  Would 
the  life  who  fails  to  win  worth  fail  to  fulfill  the  will 
of  its  Maker?  For  the  time  it  fails,  but  finally  it 
wills  well.  God  purposes;  the  life,  freely  willing, 
fulfills  His  purpose. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  while  life 
is  for  that  life.  His  purpose  that  life  fulfills  using 
free  will  which  He  makes  that  life's  power.  His 
purpose  that  life  fulfills,  then,  while  it  is  man. 
Though  life  finds  little  worth  in  this  man,  finally 
it  finds  worth.  Though  this  man,  free  in  will  for 
he  is  thus  made,  will  weakly  or  wickedly,  life  of 
man,  life  immortal,  wills  for  worth  finally.  No 
life  wills  weakly  for  always.  All  lives  win  the  life 
wider.  The  will  of  life's  Maker  each  life  fulfills 
finally.  Happy  thought  for  men  who  work  and 
live  the  little  life  of  earth.  Think  what  you  must 
be  and  will,  man  who  wishes  wider  life.  Your  own 
free  will  must  make  your  life  worthy  freedom. 
Think  for  life,  then,  man  of  free  will.  Now  you 
may  find  the  firm  will  which  wins  freedom.  Think 
well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  life  that 
by  free  will  it  fulfill  His  purpose.  But  free  will 
has  then  the  must  of  God's  purpose  to  fulfill.  Will 
free  is  bound  then?    What  would  bound  will  mean? 


Mail,  the  Free  Life  15 

Forced  worth,  which  men  know  is  impossible 
thought.  Will  free  fulfills  the  purpose  of  God 
when  free  life  chooses.  When  life  willed  free  will 
wins  by  free  will  worth,  it  fulfills  the  purpose 
which  by  God's  will  it  must.  For  that  worth  which 
God  purposes  He  permits  life  to  will  when  it 
chooses,  but  teaches  the  life  wise  use  of  free  will. 
Then  the  life  taught  fulfills  His  purpose  who  made 
it  free.  Man,  the  life,  wills  when  he  wishes  the 
worth  which  life  free  must  finally  will.  God  pur- 
poses that  free  life  win  the  wider  life.  His  purpose 
the  free  life  fulfills.  Man  wills  for  worth  as  life 
who  finally  learns  by  God's  teaching  wise  use  of 
the  will  made  free. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  life  while 
it  is  man  that  by  free  will  its  own  it  win  the 
worth  that  frees  life  from  earth.  His  will  life 
finally  fulfills  using  free  will.  That  life  who,  firmly 
willing,  wins  the  purposed  worth  finds  higher  life. 
Then  for  itself  life  wins  the  higher  life  of  freedom. 
What  help  for  men  this  thought  brings!  Worth 
found  by  man's  own  free  will  wins  for  life  immortal 
the  higher  life  of  freedom.  Think,  man  of  free 
will,  think. 

Will  free,  life's  free  power,  wins  that  worth  of 
life  which  God  purposes.  While  life  is  man,  when 
life  has  won  the  higher  life,  will  free  must  win  its 
worth ;  God  thus  wills.    Life  made  free  fulfills  His 


16  3Ia7i,  The  Life  Free 

purpose.  Man,  the  life  of  free  will,  whose  life  is 
made  worthy  by  his  own  use  of  will  free,  works  for 
teaching  the  work  given  to  life  on  earth.  Then 
that  work  teaches  life,  for  man  is  life.  But  the  life 
who  wills  freely  may  will  to  work  weakly,  may  will 
to  live  weakly.  Then  the  work  which  Purpose 
Higher  makes  teaching  will  but  teach  weakness, 
and  weak  life  wins  not  freedom.  The  teaching  of 
life  in  man  will  be  help  if  man  himself  thus  chooses, 
for  he  is  life  free.  When  then  does  life  take 
the  teaching  which  by  God's  purpose  fits  it 
for  higher  life?  When  the  man  chooses.  But 
when  man  chooses  weakness  does  work  teach? 
Yes,  that  work  teaches  weak  Avill,  weak  pur- 
pose. Why  has  life  free  will  and  purpose?  Why 
was  life  made  free?  You  know,  who  have  read 
our  word.  Think  then,  for  you  must  yourself  find 
the  firm  free  will,  the  firm  purpose  by  which  life 
wins  the  higher  life. 

Will  Higher  made  life  man  for  earth.  Will 
Higher  places  life  on  earth  there  to  fulfill  His 
purpose.  Will  Higher  wills  for  the  life  whom  He 
made  man  that  by  free  will  that  life  find  the  worth 
which  He  purposes.  While  life  is  man  He  pur- 
poses that  it  win  by  free  will  the  worth  for  higher 
life.  Won  by  life's  free  will  used  by  man  who  is 
life  on  earth  will  be  the  freedom  purposed  for  life 
by  Higher  Will.     Self  of  man,  his  life  personal, 


Man,  the  Free  Life  17 

wins  that  higher  life;  self  of  man  is  free;  then  that 
higher  life  which  God  purposes  for  life  of  self  will 
be  by  the  personal  free  will  won.  Man,  the  free 
life  personal,  wins  by  his  free  will  the  higher  life 
purposed  for  self  immortal  bj?^  God. 

Will  Higher  wills  that  life  in  man  find  by  free 
will  the  worth  by  which  that  life  is  made  worthy 
wider  life.  Then  think,  who  would  win  freedom. 
This  man  wins  the  worth  for  freedom  when  he  thus 
wishes.  Life  free  fulfills  God's  purpose.  Man 
who  wills  this  time  of  life  on  earth,  will  firmly  that 
your  life  be  worthy.  Then  you  win  for  your  life 
immortal  wider  life. 

Will  Higher  purposes  that  while  life  is  man  it 
win  worth  for  higher  life.  That  life  win  that  worth 
using  free  will  He  purposes.  That  free  life  win 
wider  life  He  purposes.  Man,  the  life,  fulfills,  as 
He  wills,  His  purpose.  Free  though  man  is,  free 
though  his  will  is,  nevertheless  man,  the  life,  fulfills 
His  purpose.  Man  who  wills  freely  wins  by  his 
free  will  that  worth  which  life's  Maker  purposes 
for  life  on  earth.  Yet  man  knows  that  his  will  is 
wholly  free.  Work  for  life  then  firmly,  man  who 
has  life  to  free.  Your  firm  purpose  well  used  for 
life  worthy  will  win  for  the  life  immortal  wider, 
fuller  life. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  on  earth.  Man 
who  wills  by  free  will  finally  wills  as  the  Higher 


18  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

Will  purposes.  What  from  this  the  helpful 
thought?  This — when  life  free  to  will  as  it  wishes 
wills  for  worth  that  life  fulfills  the  purpose  of  God. 
May  a  life  while  it  wills  where  life  works  but  part  of 
life's  work  become  worthy  wider  life?  Yes,  for  life 
fulfills  God's  purpose  there  where  it  is  man.  Free 
to  will,  free  always  to  will  as  it  wishes,  life  neverthe- 
less wills  finally  as  God  purposes.  While  it  is  man 
will  for  life  worthy  is  found.  While  it  works  as 
man  firm  purpose  is  found.  Man,  then,  who  wills 
knowing  his  will  is  free,  can  will  for  life  worthy, 
and,  thus  willing,  wins  for  life  immortal  the  wider 
life  purposed  from  the  willing  of  all. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He  made 
fulfills,  made  life  for  earth  man,  willed  that  life 
use  for  work  free  v/ill,  willed  that  life  use  for  worth 
also  free  will.  Each  life  wills  as  it  pleases;  no  life 
but  has  free  will ;  and  by  free  will  the  life  for  whom 
God  purposes  worth  finds  that  worth.  Finally  each 
life  wills  as  Higher  Will  purposes;  finally  life  for 
whom  wider,  fuller  life  is  by  Will  Higher  purposed 
wins  by  its  own  free  will  the  worth  for  wider, 
fuller  life.  Man  free  in  will,  life  free  in  will,  ful- 
fills finally  the  purpose  of  Him  who  makes  life 
free. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that  while 
on  earth  life  find  the  worth  for  higher,  fuller  life. 
That  purpose  which  life  fulfills  is  the  purpose  of 


Man,  the  Free  Life  19 

life's  Maker.  Then  life  fulfills  that  purpose  surely. 
Yet  He  who  purposes  the  life  higher  wills  that  life 
be  free.  Then  life  free  fulfills  His  purpose.  But 
for  that  life  who  fails  to  purpose  as  He  wills  He 
purposes  penalty  of  man's  life  again.  Is  that  pen- 
alty? Yes.  Well  life  finally  purposes  as  life  of 
man,  but  for  man's  life  of  work  again  it  purposes 
if  it  weakly  or  unworthily  uses  the  free  will  which 
He  who  gives  it  means  for  help.  Think  wisely  then, 
man  who  may  this  time  of  life  on  earth  find  the 
worth  for  freedom.  Would  you  wish  the  life  of 
work  on  earth  again?  Would  you  think  it  well  to 
incur  that  penalty?  Think  wisely,  you  who  may 
free  life  if  thus  you  yourself  will. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  freedom.  His  pur- 
pose frees  life  from  earth  finally.  His  will  life  ful- 
fills then  by  free  will,  for  He  makes  life  free. 
When  by  free  will  life  finds  the  woi-th  which  He 
purposes  that  life  in  man  find,  He  frees  that  life 
from  man.  From  weak  will  then  life  is  freed,  from 
weak  purpose,  from  the  littleness  which  makes  man 
unworthy.  What  help  for  men  here!  But  man 
wills  for  himself  that  his  life  be  worthy.  Remember 
that,  O  man  who  has  life  to  free,  remember  that  al- 
ways. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  whose  purpose  life 
fulfills,  wills  for  life  free  will  its  own.  Then  by 
that  free  will  life  fulfills  the  higher  purpose  of  its 


20  Man,  The  Life  Free 

Maker.  What  food  for  thought  there  for  men! 
Life  who  is  free  fulfills  God's  purpose.  Then  the 
life  who  wills  in  this  man  to-day  will  fulfill  God's 
purpose,  yet  this  life  wills  for  worth  when  the  man 
thus  wishes.  How  then  would  life  be  free?  Why 
have  we  worked,  O  men?  That  you  understand 
that  thought.  Will  free,  which  life  when  it  thus 
wishes  uses  for  worth,  finally  is  well  and  wisely  used 
by  life  in  man.  Then  this  man  who  is  life  to-day 
may  will  for  life  the  worth  which  He  who  makes 
life  free  purposes.  This  man,  then,  wills  if  thus 
he  wishes  that  worth  by  which  life  immortal  wins 
freedom.  Think  well,  you  who  will  for  life,  think 
well. 

Power  of  life  willed  free  will  is.  No  life  per- 
sonal would  by  other  than  free  power  will.  Man 
who  is  free  by  his  free  will  fulfills  the  purpose  of 
his  JNIaker.  Then  will  free,  but  bound,  is  the  power 
of  life.  Why  that  thought  ?  Would  life  find  worth 
were  it  forced  to  will  worth?  Would  life  be  not 
free  because  it  fulfills  His  purpose  who  wills  it  to 
be  life?  Would  life  free  win  worth  were  it  forced 
to  will  otherwise  than  by  will  free?  Forced  worth 
would  be  impossible  thought.  For  life  Will  Higher 
purposes  will  for  life  worthy.  His  purpose  life  ful- 
fills. JMan  who  is  wholly  free  wins  finally  the  worth 
which  He  who  made  him  free  purposes.  Self  of 
man,  life  personal,  wins  wider  life.     Life  free  in 


Man,  the  Free  Life  21 

will,  man's  personal  self,  fulfills  the  purpose  of 
God,  using  free  personal  will. 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
made  life  for  earth  man.  He  wills  to  that  life  free 
will;  He  wills  that  life  fulfill  His  purpose  using 
free  will.  All  life  wins  the  life  wider  which  He 
purposes.  Though  life  will  weakly,  the  purpose  of 
Him  who  made  life  is  unchanged.  Will  free  may 
be  weakly  used,  for  He  made  life  free,  but  that  free 
will  finally  fulfills  His  purpose.  Man  wills  as  he 
chooses.  Whether  he  wills  for  life  worthy  or  for 
life  unworthy  he  chooses  himself.  But  man,  as  life, 
fulfills  surely  the  purpose  of  his  Maker,  God. 

The  free  will  which  man  has,  life's  free  will,  wins 
life's  worth  while  life  is  on  earth.  Then  that  free 
will  life  uses  while  the  worth  for  wider  life  is  won. 
Will  free,  life's  power,  man  has;  will  free  makes 
his  life  worthy  wider  life ;  by  will  free  life  wins  that 
better,  wider  life  purposed  by  God  when  He  made 
life.  By  will  free  life,  both  while  it  is  man  and 
forever,  wins  its  worth.  Man  uses  that  power 
while  he  wins  for  life  its  first  wider  life.  Then, 
man  who  wills  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He  made 
fulfills,  was  the  Wilier  of  life.  Life  which  He 
willed   fulfills   His   purpose.     But   that   life   was 


22  Man,  The  Life  Free 

willed  free  will  its  own.  Then  life  fulfills  His  pur- 
pose using  its  own  willed  free  will.  But  free  will 
is  bound  then.  No,  will  free  man  has,  and  by  will 
free  he,  as  hfe,  fulfills  God's  purpose.  But  life 
which  uses  free  will  has  God's  teaching.  Then 
when  life  is  by  God  taught  wise  use  of  free  will, 
it  by  free  will  fulfills  His  purpose.  Wise  free  will 
man  learns;  wise  free  will  wins  for  life  its  worth. 
God  wills  for  life  wider  life  won  by  its  own  free 
will. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
wills  for  life  while  it  wills  as  man  on  earth  that  by 
its  own  free  will  life  win  the  worth  which  fits  it  for 
higher  life.  When  life,  freely  willing,  wins  that 
worth  which  He  purposes,  it  thus  fulfills  His  pur- 
pose. What  has  life  for  help  while  it  fulfills  His 
purpose?  What  help  gives  He  to  the  life  whom 
He  made  free?  His  teaching  He  gives  life.  That 
teaching  which  life  finds  on  earth  finally  makes  it 
wise,  for  man's  life  of  work  teaches  firm  purpose. 
That  life  win  freedom  by  firm  purpose  its  own.  He 
wills;  that  life  will  for  life  worthy  while  it  is  man, 
He  wills.  His  purpose  life  fulfills  willing  its  worth 
by  free  choice.  Man  who  is  life  where  life  first 
wills,  on  earth,  wins  by  his  free  will  the  worth  that 
frees  life  from  earth.  When  for  life  worthy  man 
wills,  life  thus  wills.  Man  then,  free  to  will  for 
life  worthy  or  unworthy,  finally  wills  for  life  wor- 


Man,  the  Free  Life  23 

thy,  and  the  free  will  which  He  who  made  life  gives 
fulfills  finally  His  purpose.  What  for  hfe  pur- 
poses He  ?  Worth  for  higher  life  won  of  free  will. 
Heed  the  word,  man  who  is  life  to-day. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  that  He 
made,  was  when  life  made  by  Him  was  not.  His 
will  placed  life  on  earth,  there  to  find  the  worth 
for  higher,  fuller  life.  When  life  was  by  Will 
Higher  made,  that  worth  was  by  Will  Higher  pur- 
posed. His  purpose  who  made  life  will  be  by  life 
fulfilled.  When  by  the  free  will  made  life's  power 
that  life  wins  the  worth  which  He  purposes,  Will 
Higher  frees  that  life  from  earth.  Won  then  by 
the  free  will  which  God  made  life's  power  will  be 
the  higher  life  purposed  by  Him.  When  free  life, 
willing  by  free  will,  wins  the  purposed  worth,  Will 
Higher  translates  that  life  to  freedom.  Won  by 
man's  free  will,  that  power  willed  for  his  use  while 
he  is  life  on  earth,  will  be  the  wider  life  purposed 
by  God;  j^et  when  man  wills  that  worth  he  himself 
chooses,  for  he  is  life  made  free.  When  life  free 
of  will  wins  the  worth  for  life  higher  man  has  him- 
self won  that  worth.  Think,  who  have  life  im- 
mortal, think  wisely. 

Will  for  life  worthy  is  wise  free  will.  All  life 
finds  that  will  finally,  yet  man  finds  that  will  when 
he  wishes,  for  God  made  man  free.  Will  free  ful- 
fills for  man  the  purpose  of  his  Maker;  will  free 


24  3Ia?h  The  Life  Free 

fulfills  for  life  the  purpose  of  its  Maker.  Each 
life  while  it  wills  as  man  wins  finally  the  will  which 
makes  life  worthy.  Will  for  life  worthy  each  man 
who  wills  for  life  this  day  may  find.  Will  free  used 
wisely  wins  freedom,  purpose  firm,  life  wider. 
Think,  then,  man  who  wills  for  life  to-day.  You 
will  the  worth  that  wins  freedom  when  you  thus 
wish.    Think  well,  O  man! 

Man,  the  life  of  free  will,  man  the  life  free  to 
will  worth  or  unworthiness  as  he  wishes,  is  yet  life 
for  whom  God  purposes.  That  he  win  his  worth 
himself  using  his  free  will,  that  he  make  life  im- 
mortal worthy  the  wider  life  of  freedom,  He  who 
made  man  free  purposes.  His  purpose  life  fulfills 
while  it  is  man.  Though  this  man  will  unworthily, 
though  many  men  who  will  for  the  one  life  on  earth 
will  unworthily,  the  life  finally  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose. When  life  fulfills  the  purpose  of  its  Maker, 
the  man  chooses.  Then  this  man  may  will  the 
worth  which  brings  to  life  immortal  its  wider,  fuller 
life.  Think,  man  who  is  free,  think  well.  God's 
purpose  this  man  may  fulfill  if  this  man  thus  wishes. 
Then,  you  who  would  win  the  life  wider,  will  firmly 
that  your  man's  life  be  worthy.  Then  this  man 
fulfills  God's  purpose.  Free  life  man  is;  for  life 
worthy  life  finally  purposes;  when  depends  on 
man's  own  choice.  Think  then,  man  who  may  win 
for  life  its  freedom  if  thus  you  wish,  think  well. 


31  an,  the  Free  Life  25 

Will  Higher,  life's  JNIaker,  purposes  that  life's 
free  will  fulfill  His  purpose  for  life  which  He 
willed  into  being.  Man,  who  is  life  on  earth,  who 
wills  for  life  using  that  free  will  which  God  makes 
his  power,  wills  that  which  fulfills  God's  purpose 
finally.  What  purpose  has  life  made?  Willed  free 
purpose.  What  must  life  for  whom  God  purposes 
worth  for  wider  life  be  then?  Worthy  through  its 
free  purpose,  worthy  the  life  wider  there  where  it 
lives  as  man.  Then  life  who  wills  of  free  will  wins 
thus  the  wider  life  which  He  purposes  who  makes 
life  free. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
made  life  for  earth  man.  His  purpose  that  life  ful- 
fills while  it  is  man,  while  it  is.  ISIan  who  wills  for 
life  on  earth  wills  that  life  find  wider  life  using 
the  will  which  Higher  Purpose  gives.  When  life 
of  man  wills  for  that  worth  which  by  God's  purpose 
life  finds  on  earth  He  translates  that  life  to  wider, 
fuller,  happier  life.  Won  by  life  who  is  man  for 
earth  is  the  higher  life  purposed  by  Will  Higher. 
From  worth  to  worth  life  rises  when  God  has  freed 
it  from  earth.  Happy  life,  worthy  life,  fuller  life 
is  won  by  the  free  will  of  man  on  earth.  Think,  who 
live  the  man's  life,  think  well. 

Man  who  wills  for  worth  when  thus  he  wishes 
is  life  who  must  thus  will.  ]Man  who  is  free  then, 
is  life  who  must.     While  life  is  man  it  fulfills  the 


26  Man,  The  Life  Free 

purpose  of  Him  who  made  it  free.  Will  free  wins 
for  life  the  worth  which  it  has  by  the  purpose  of 
its  Maker  to  win.  Will  for  life  worthy  is  will 
taught  by  life  of  man,  for  that  life  is,  by  God's 
purpose,  teaching  for  life  itself.  Then  taught  will 
wins  for  life  the  worth  which  life  must  find.  Worth 
purposed  by  God  life  finds  willing  freely.  jNIan 
wills  for  worth  when  he  thus  wishes.  His  free  will, 
then,  wins_the  worth  which  by  God's  purpose  life 
finds  on  earth.  Life  free  fulfills  the  purpose  of 
Him  who  made  it  free.  Well  life  wills  finally, 
taught  by  the  work  and  the  life  on  earth.  Well 
then  life  wills  finally  in  man,  for  while  life  works 
on  earth  it  is  man.  Free  life  fulfills  its  must  finally, 
taught  by  the  purpose  of  its  IMaker  wisdom.  Free 
life  wins  the  wider  life,  for  that  purpose  which  life 
fulfills  is  the  purpose  of  Omnipotent  God.  Well 
life  wills  when  taught  as  God  purposes  it  be  taught. 
Well  man  wills  when  life  is  taught  wise  use  of  the 
willed  free  will. 

Will  Higher  made  life  for  earth  man.  He  wills 
for  that  life  whom  He  made  far  wider  worth  than 
life  finds  on  earth.  He  wills  for  life  worth  far 
greater  than  that  which  man  finds.  But  that  wider 
worth,  as  the  worth  of  man,  is  won  by  free  will. 
God  made  life  free;  His  purpose  life  free  fulfills 
using  the  will  which  He  makes  life's  free  power, 
will  of  personal  self.    When  by  will  free  life  wins 


Mail,  the  Free  Life  27 

that  worth  which  Pie  purposes  Hfe  thus  fulfills  His 
will.  INIan  who  is  life,  think.  Wise  you  may  make 
your  will  this  time  of  life  on  earth.  Life  wins  wider 
life  if  you  make  your  life  worthy.  Life  wins  man's 
life  again  if  you  fail  to  make  your  life  worthy. 
Think  well,  man  who  wills  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  wills  for  each 
life  whom  He  made  forever,  wills  for  this  life  who 
is  man  to-day.  Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  the  life 
wider,  fuller  life,  wills  for  this  life  then  wider  life. 
But  He  wills  for  life  wider  life  won  by  free  pur- 
pose. Then  this  life  wins  its  wider  life  using  its  own 
free  purpose.  Think  what  I  tell  you,  man  who  is 
life,  think.  This  man  who  wills,  this  life  then  who 
wills  this  time  on  earth,  may  win  that  higher  life 
which  God  purposes  by  this  man's  free  purpose. 
When  life  who  wills  using  free  purpose  makes  itself 
worthy  God  frees  it  from  earth.  Then  this  man 
who  wills  for  life  this  time  wins  for  his  life  of  per- 
sonal self  the  higher  life  of  freedom  if  this  man  thus 
purposes.    Think  well,  O  man,  think  well. 


II 

LIFE  PERSONAL 


LIFE   PERSONAL 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  life's  IMaker,  purposes 
that  life  personal  win  wider  life. 
Man  is  life  personal,  but  man  the 
physical  is  made  for  earth.  It  is 
man,  the  life  of  personal  self,  who  wins  higher  life. 
Man  the  life  of  self,  man  the  life  of  immortal  per- 
sonal self,  wins  the  wider  life.  Man,  the  wilier  of 
life's  worth  on  earth,  that  worth  which  brings  to  life 
its  first  wider  life,  wins  that  worth  by  his  personal 
free  will.  Life  willed  wider  life  wins  the  worth  for 
wider  life  while  it  is  man  on  earth.  Man  who  reads, 
think  well.  What  makes  life  personal  worthy?  Its 
own  free  will.  Work  that  life  win  personal  worth 
then,  man  who  would  live  wider  life.  Think  what 
w^e  tell — man  who  is  free  wins  hy  his  own  free  will 
that  worth  which  brings  for  personal  self  wider, 
fuller  life. 

Worth  of  life  man  finds  by  wise  use  of  his  own 
powers,  mind,  will,  purpose  and  memory.  Those 
powers,  made  his  powers  by  his  Maker,  win  finally 

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32  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

the  worth  of  hfe  which  God  purposes.  They  win 
for  man  personal  worth,  that  personal  worth  of 
life  in  man  which  wins  higher  life  for  his  immortal 
self.  Man  who  wills  and  purposes  as  he  pleases 
is  life  who  has  God's  purpose  to  fulfill.  The  Wilier 
of  life,  man's  Maker,  places  that  life  on  earth,  there 
to  find  wisdom  in  use  of  the  powers  which  man  uses 
as  life  immortal.  Will  free,  purpose  free,  life  uses 
to  win  that  worth  which  God  purposes.  While  life 
is  man  it  wins  worth  for  life  higher  than  that  of 
earth;  while  life  is  man  it  wins  that  worth  which 
wins  higher  life  of  freedom.  Well  must  the  man 
will,  well  must  he  purpose,  to  win  that  higher  life. 
When  by  wise  use  of  the  powers  willed  to  man  as 
life  personal  man  makes  himself  worthy,  his  life 
of  personal  self  wins  the  higher  life,  freed  from 
earth,  which  God  purposed  when  He  willed  life  into 
being. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  fulfills,  made 
life  personal  self.  The  will  of  life  personal  must 
be  free.  For  life  worthy  life  personal  wills  itself 
then.  That  life  personal  win  its  worth  for  higher 
life  using  its  own  free  will  Will  Higher  purposes. 
Man,  who  wills  for  life  while  life  is  on  earth,  wills 
for  life  worthy  when  he  thus  wishes.  Man,  per- 
sonal life  free  of  will,  works  the  work  for  life  on 
earth  purposed  by  Will  Higher.  Work  purposed 
to  be  teaching  for  life  man  does  using  free  will. 


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That  work  teaches  hfe  well.  That  will  which  by 
God's  purpose  wins  life's  worth  forever  man  uses 
for  the  life  of  earth.  When  by  free  will  its  own 
life  attains  that  worth  which  He  who  made  life  per- 
sonal self  wills,  life  fulfills  God's  purpose.  Man, 
life  free,  wins  by  free  will  the  life  wider. 

Think  well,  man  who  is  life  immortal.  We  tell 
this  for  help.    Think  well,  O  man. 

Man,  who  is  life  made,  wills  using  the  free  will 
of  life  personal.  That  life  who  must  win  worth  for 
wider  life  win  that  worth  by  its  own  free  will  God 
purposes ;  that  life  made  by  Him  fulfill  His  will  as 
He  purposes  God  wills ;  none  may  for  always  evade 
the  will  of  life's  Maker;  all  lives  win  wider  life. 
Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day  wins  that  higher 
life,  but  this  life  wins  it  willing  for  its  worth  by 
free  will.  Man  who  wills  for  life,  think.  When 
will  is  well  and  wisely  used  the  life  who  wills  as  this 
man  wins  wider  life.     Think  well,  O  man. 

Man,  life  personal,  wills  for  life  worthy  when 
thus  he  wishes.  Man,  life  willed  worth  by  higher 
will  of  life's  Maker,  finds  that  worth  using  life's 
free  will.  Then  life  by  man's  use  of  free  will  wins 
the  worth  purposed  for  life  on  earth.  Will  free 
makes  life  worthy  for  life  of  earth  and  forever. 
Will  free,  man's  free  power,  wins  for  life  personal, 
life  immortal,  the  wider  life  purposed  by  God  when 
He  made  life.     By  will  free  life  wins  Heaven. 


34  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

Wide  life  becomes  when  freed  from  earth,  high  the 
worth  it  finds  by  God's  purpose.  jNIan,  using  his 
own  free  will,  makes  life  personal,  life  immortal, 
worthy  the  higher  life  purposed  by  God.  Will  free, 
man's  will  used  for  life  worthy  firmly,  wins  life 
higher.  jNIan  wills  that  life  immortal  win  higher 
life  then.  Think,  O  man  who  this  day  wills  for 
life,  think  well. 

He  who  wills  for  life  wills  for  life  well.  He  wills 
for  life  free  will  its  own;  He  wills  for  life  worth 
found  through  free  will;  He  makes  life  personal 
that  it  win  its  worth  itself.  That  word  we  tell  for 
help.  Man  who  wills  for  his  own  life  wills  that  by 
his  life  worthy  personal  self  immortal  find  worth  for 
higher  life.  That  worth  which  life  finds  by  man's 
will  wins  for  life  personal  the  wider,  fuller  life  pur- 
posed by  God.  Willed  life  fulfills  the  will  of  its 
Maker  by  its  free  will.  INIade  free,  purposed  life 
higher,  personal  life  of  man,  immortal  self,  wins  by 
its  own  free  will  that  higher  life  which  Will  Higher 
purposes.  All  that  He  made  fulfills  His  purpose. 
Will  free  life  has  by  His  will ;  will  free  fulfills  His 
purpose. 

JNIan  is  life  personal.  His  worth  then,  being  the 
worth  of  life  personal,  life  immortal,  wins  for  life 
personal  its  wider  life.  What  will  wins  the  wider 
life?  Man's  will  well  and  firmly  used.  What  pur- 
pose helps  both  man  and  life  wider  ?    Purpose  kept 


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firm,  firm  for  both  work  well  finished  and  for  life 
worthy.  Man  who  is  life,  think.  Why  fail  in  will 
or  purpose  ?  They  win,  if  well  and  firmly  used,  the 
wider  personal  life  purposed  by  life's  Maker.  Think 
then  well,  O  man. 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is.  While  life  is  man  on  earth  He  purposes 
for  it ;  when  life  has  found  wider  life  He  purposes 
for  it;  yet  He  made  life  free  personal  self.  That 
wider  life  which  He  purposes  for  man's  life  is  per- 
sonal wider  life.  For  that  life  man  wills  on  earth 
finally.  Work  for  that  life,  man  who  wills  as  life 
immortal,  work  to  find  worth  personal.  Man  who 
is  free  wills  his  own  personal  worth.  Wider  life 
for  personal  self  God  purposes,  yet  life  is  free. 
Then  that  wider  life  purposed  by  God  must  be 
won  by  the  life's  own  free  will  and  purpose.  Think 
well,  you  who  have  life  to  free,  think  well. 

The  power  of  life  personal,  free  will,  man  has. 
While  he  works  the  work  purposed  for  life  on  earth 
that  free  power  he  uses.  Then  by  free  will  his  own 
man  works  that  work  which  teaches  life.  Well  life 
learns  to  will  finally,  but  will  free  may  be  weakly 
used,  for  life  wills  for  work  as  it  wishes.  Then 
that  power  which  man  has,  his  personal  free  will, 
finishes  well  or  not  the  work  purposed  for  life  on 


36  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

earth.  Well  that  work  must  be  finished;  thus 
Higher  Purpose  wills.  Then  what  work  teaches 
life  free?  The  work  finished  well;  that  work  helps 
life  to  win  firm  purpose,  and  life  personal,  who  wills 
well  for  work  when  it  thus  wishes,  finally  learns 
that  which  God  purposes,  firm  use  of  free  personal 
will.  The  purpose  of  Him  who  makes  life  free  free 
will  of  life  fulfills. 

Man,  the  life  willed,  was  willed  free  will  his  own. 
But  for  man  the  free  will  must  win  his  worth.  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  life  worth  found  of  free  will. 
God  wills  that  life  free  win  the  wider  life.  Per- 
sonal life  wills  for  w^orth  using  free  will.  Personal 
life  wins  the  wider  life.  When  free  will  is  well  and 
firmly  used  for  worth  personal  life  wins  the  freedom 
from  earth  which  God  purposes.  Then  the  man 
who  is  life  to-day  may  will  that  worth  which  brings 
wider  life.  His  free  will  he  may  use  well,  and  thus 
this  life  may,  if  this  man  thus  chooses,  by  this  man's 
free  will  win  wider  personal  life.  We  tell  this  for 
help.    Think  well,  man  who  wills  for  life  to-day. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  higher 
life,  and  that  life  higher  be  won  by  free  will  that 
He  gives.  JNIan,  the  life  of  personal  self,  who  wills 
as  he  pleases  worth  or  unworthiness,  is  yet  life  which 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will.  All  wills 
finally  fulfill  His  will.  No  life  made  wills  unwor- 
thily for  always.    Weak  though  the  life  be  while  it 


Life  Personal  37 

is  this  man,  worthy  tliough  it  be  while  it  is  this  man, 
its  weakness  and  its  worthiness  are  its  own  free 
choice.  But  finally  each  life  wills  worthily.  Life 
free  wins  higher  life;  will  free  wins  the  worth  for 
higher  life.  Finally  weak  will  life  learns  to  make 
firm  will,  finally  life  unworthy  wills  to  be  life  wor- 
thy. Thus  man,  who  wills  for  his  life  whether  it 
win  life  higher  or  work  man's  work  once  more,  wills 
either  because  he  is  free;  but  the  life  who  is  man 
finally  wills  for  life  higher.  Would  this  man  wish 
life  higher,  or  work  on  earth  again?  Think  which 
to  choose,  man  who  wills  for  life,  think  wisely  to- 
day. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  that  which  He 
made  forever,  purposes  that  life  find  while  it  is 
man  worth  for  life  higher.  Then  what  has  life  to 
be  to  fulfill  His  purpose?  Worthy  by  its  own  free 
purpose.  God  makes  life  free;  His  purpose  life 
fulfills  using  free  purpose.  But  when  life  weakly 
uses  that  power  which  He  who  wills  for  life  pur- 
poses for  help,  that  life  wins  but  man's  life  of 
work  again.  Life  wills  well  finally,  for  thus  its 
Maker  wills;  yet  free  life  wills  weakly  perhaps. 
Then  life  has  penalty,  penalty  till  will  is  made  firm 
for  work  and  for  life  worth^^  Would  the  man 
who  wills  for  life  to-day  wish  that  penalty?  Why 
let  life  weakly  purpose,  man  who  is  free?  When 
the  man  who  is  life  purposes  firmly  his  life  will  win 


38  3I(nh  The  Life  Free 

freedom.    Think  wisely,  you  who  have  life  to  free. 

Will  Higher,  mIio  wills  for  life  while  it  is,  wills 
for  life  ^^'hile  it  is  man  that  it  find  worth  for  higher 
life  than  that  of  earth.  His  will  all  life  fulfills.  Yet 
life  free  may  will  for  unworthiness,  and  thus  find 
but  worth  for  earth  life  again.  That  God  permits, 
since  he  made  life  free.  But  worth  for  higher  life 
will  be  found  while  life  is  man,  will  for  life  worthy 
life  will  find,  will  firm  for  worth  life  will  find.  That 
which  God  purposes  is  worth  won  by  life's  own  free 
will.  ]Man  who  is  life  free,  think.  When  the  man 
wishes  that  worth  is  found.  Think  then  wisely,  O 
man. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He  made 
fulfills,  wills  that  life  for  earth  be  man,  wills  that 
will  of  life  be  free,  wills  that  by  that  free  power 
life  fulfill  His  purpose,  wills  for  life  higher  life 
won  of  life's  free  choice.  Then,  though  the  life 
will  unworthily  for  the  life  of  this  man,  finally  life 
who  fulfills  the  purpose  of  its  JMaker  wills  for  life 
worthy.  All  life  thus  wills  finally;  not  one  but 
finally  finds  worth  for  higher  life.  For  that  life 
worthy  life  wills  by  free  will.  Then  this  life  in 
man  finds  worth  for  higher  life  finally,  but  finds  it 
by  free  will.  You  who  are  life  this  time  on 
earth  win  that  worth  if  thus  you  choose.  Think, 
then,  what  use  of  free  will  you  will  make.  The 
life  who  wills  well  finds  higher  life,  the  life  who 


Life  Personal  89 

wills  uiiAvorthily  finds  life  on  earth  again.  Which 
would  you  wish?  You  will  for  that  which  you  wish. 
Free  you  are  made;  by  free  will  life  must  win  the 
life  higher.    Man  who  wills  for  life  to-day,  think. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  that  life  while 
it  is  man  win  the  worth  for  life  higher.  What  for 
life  purposes  the  man  who  is  life  to-day?  Will  for 
life  worthy  he  finds  if  thus  he  wishes.  Will  the  life 
win  this  time  the  higher  life,  or  will  it  win  man's 
life  once  more?  This  life  wills  as  this  man  wills; 
life  worthy  it  finds  if  this  man  thus  wills.  Your 
life,  man  of  earth,  it  is  who  finds  higher  life  or 
man's  life  of  work  again  by  your  will  free.  Think 
then  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  while  it  prepares  on 
earth  for  wider  life.  His  will  man  fulfills  when 
he  works  well  for  life;  His  purpose  man  fulfills 
when  he  makes  life  worthy.  Wider  life  purposed 
by  God  is  won  then  by  man  who  wills  of  free  will. 
Self  man  was  made,  personal  self.  Each  life  pur- 
poses for  its  worth  itself;  each  life  wills  for  that 
worth  which  God  purposes  using  its  own  free  will; 
then  each  life  fulfills  the  higher  purpose  when  thus 
it  chooses.  But  the  free  life  for  whom  Higher 
Will  purposes  worth  must  win  that  worth.  Will 
free  man  has,  purpose  free.  When  his  free  will, 
his  free  purpose,  make  life  worthy  life  fulfills  God's 
will  for  life  on  earth.    Think  what  you  read,  man 


40  Man,  The  Life  Free 

who  is  free.  By  your  will  free,  by  your  free  pur- 
pose, you  can  win  for  life  the  wider  life  of  freedom. 
Choose  well,  man  who  has  life  to  free,  choose  well. 
Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  while  life  is 
for  that  life.  What  purposes  He  for  life?  Worth 
won  by  free  will ;  worth  that  fits  life  for  wider  and 
wider  life  won  by  free  will.  Help  this  work  that 
we  do  for  help  with  Thy  blessing,  we  pray  Thee,  O 
God. 


Ill 

MAN,  WORKER  ON  EARTH  FOR  LIFE 
IMMORTAL 


MAN,  TTORKER  ON  EARTH  FOR  LIFE  IMMORTAL 

Dr.  Coulter. 

MAN,  the  life  on  earth,  whose  life  is  full 
with  potentialities  of  being  higher ;  who 
works  the  man's  work  because  thus  life 
learns  wisdom  in  use  of  will  and  pur- 
pose; man,  who  wills  for  that  work  well  or  ill  as 
he  wishes  because  God  made  life  free,  wills  and 
purposes  for  his  work  with  the  powers  willed  to  life 
itself.  Mind,  will,  purpose  that  life  uses  while  it  is 
man,  life  uses  while  it  is.  Those  powers,  made  life's 
free  powers  by  life's  Maker,  man  uses  for  the  life's 
work  on  earth.  Then  man  fulfills  God's  purpose 
for  life  on  earth  by  his  use  of  those  powers.  Will 
free,  purpose  free  man  has.  Will  free  fulfills  God's 
will,  purpose  free  fulfills  His  purpose.  Will  free, 
purpose  free  fulfill  the  purpose  of  life's  Maker. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  the  life  of 
man  while  it  works  on  earth  for  wider  life.  What 
purposes  Higher  Will  for  life  free?  Worth  won 
by  its  own  free  will.  Then  life  who  wills  for  life 
worthy  fulfills  God's  purpose.    Why  was  life  made 

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44  Man,  The  Life  Free 

free?  That  it  win  by  free  will  its  own  the  wider 
life  which  God  wills  for  it.  Then  this  life  who  is 
man  fulfills  His  purpose  who  made  it  free.  When 
for  life  worthy  life  wills,  when  free  purpose  life 
keeps  firm,  life  fulfills  God's  purpose.  Then,  man 
who  is  life  immortal,  will  and  purpose  firmly  that 
your  life  win  worth,  for  thus  life  wins  freedom. 
Were  life  forced  to  worth,  will  of  personal  self  it 
would  not  have.  Man  is  made  free  life.  Then  his 
free  will  fulfills  for  his  life  God's  purpose.  The 
worth  which  God  purposes,  worth  for  life  wider, 
must  be  found  by  free  will.  Then  life  free  fulfills 
by  its  free  will  God's  purpose.  But  that  which  life 
wills  may  but  win  life  of  man  again.  Then  life 
works  further  the  work  which  teaches.  Man  who 
wills  for  life,  think.  What  use  of  free  will  do  you 
make,  wise  or  unworthy?  Wise  firm  use  wins 
wider  life,  unworthy  use  keeps  life  working  on 
earth.  Think  then,  man  who  wills  for  life,  think 
well. 

Will  Higher  made  life  man  that  while  on  earth 
it  work  the  work  purposed  to  be  teaching  for  firm 
purpose.  Man,  then,  works  life's  work  when  he 
w^orks  man's  work,  and  life  wills  in  man  how  that 
work  be  done.  We  who  live  wider  life  worked  man's 
work,  finished  that  work  well,  won  this  higher  life 
by  will  used  well,  had  while  we  were  men  the  teach- 
ing of  man's  life  and  work.     The  wider  life  works 


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wider  work,  using  in  its  wider  work  the  will  that  it 
used  while  it  was  man.  Then  life  who  uses  free  will 
to  finish  man's  work  uses  free  will  to  finish  the  wider 
work  of  life  freed.  That  thought  will  be  help  to 
the  man  who  works.  The  work  of  life  while  it  is 
man  teaches  life  firm  purpose,  firm  will  needed  in 
life  higher.  Think  then,  who  work  man's  work. 
Your  work,  your  man's  work  of  to-day,  teaches  life 
if  you  thus  wish.    Think  wisely  then,  O  man. 

Will  Higher  made  life  for  earth  man.  His  pur- 
pose for  life  on  earth  man  fulfills.  That  Purpose 
who  made  man  life  gives  to  man  the  work  on  earth 
of  life.  Man  works  by  the  purpose  of  Him  who 
wills  for  life  worth.  The  life  who  wills  on  earth 
wills  there  for  that  worth,  taught  by  the  man's 
work  firm  purpose.  But  life  who  wishes  it  wins  that 
worth.  Then  life  who  wishes  it  wins  that  firm  pur- 
pose which  God  wills  that  life  find  on  earth.  What 
from  this  follows  ?  This  man  who  is  life  to-day  may, 
if  he  wishes  it,  win  that  firm  purpose.  Think  then, 
man  who  wills  for  life.  That  firm  purpose  which 
wins  for  life  its  freedom  you  may  find  if  thus  you, 
the  man,  wish.    Think  well,  O  man. 

Man,  the  life  who  works  for  life  wider,  man,  the 
life  of  free  will,  works  on  earth  the  work  purposed 
to  teach  free  will.  That  work  which  man  has,  being 
life's  work,  teaches  life.  Firm  purpose  life  is  taught 
by  the  work  of  man  if  thus  the  man  wishes.    Firm 


46  Man,  The  Life  Free 

purpose  won  by  man  life  holds  firm  when  freed. 
That  firm  purpose  man  finds  who  finishes  well  his 
work,  and  firmly  wills  to  live  worthily.  Has  this 
man  won  that  firm  purpose?  His  life  has  won  it 
then.  Think,  man  who  works  life's  work.  Your 
firm  purpose  is  life's  firm  purpose.  Think  well,  O 
man.  When  man  works  firmly,  finishing  well  his 
work,  his  life  has  won  firm  purpose  for  work, — 
yes,  but  perhaps  he  wills  for  unworthy  life.  What 
follows  that  use  of  free  will?  The  life  of  man 
again,  the  life  for  whom  work  is  teaching  again. 
Would  this  man  wish  that  life  again?  When  his 
purpose  makes  his  life  unworthy  he  finds  that  life 
again.  Then  purpose  firmly  for  both  work  and  life 
worthy,  man  who  would  win  freedom.  Why  wait 
to  find  that  firm  purpose  which  frees  life?  This 
time  life  may  find  it,  this  man  may  find  it.  Then 
think  for  life,  man  who  works  to-day,  think  for  life. 
Man  the  life,  who  has  from  his  Maker  will  free, 
wills  for  life  worthy  when  he  thus  wishes.  Then 
man  wills  when  life  becomes  worthy  wider  life.  The 
free  will  made  life's  power  man  uses  for  the  worth 
of  life.  Man  who  wills  for  life  wills  finally  for 
life  worthy.  But  this  man  may,  for  he  is  free,  will 
for  imworthiness.  Then  life  remains  held  to  earth. 
For  life  worthy  will,  man  who  has  life  to  free.  You 
will  that  life  win  wider  life,  or  that  it  be  man  again. 
Remember  this,  you  who  are  life  immortal,  for  by 


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will  your  own,  your  free  will,  life  may,  if  you 
choose,  win  freedom  and  wider,  fuller  life.  Think 
then,  man  of  earth,  think  well. 

Will  Higher  was  when  life  made  by  Him  was 
not.  His  purpose  follows  life  while  it  is.  He  pur- 
poses, while  the  life  is,  worth  for  wider  and  wider 
life.  While  the  life  is  working  as  man  on  earth  it 
finds  firm  purpose,  willed  to  find  it  there,  which 
firm  purpose  wins  for  life  the  wider  and  wider  worth 
purposed  by  God  when  life  was  by  Him  made. 
His  will  all  life  fulfills.  His  will  the  life  fulfills 
as  He  wills,  using  its  free  will  and  purpose.  Then 
the  life  who  is  man  to-day  will  win  the  wider  life 
purposed  by  God,  and  that  life  it  will  win  using  its 
free  will  and  purpose.  Yet  life  this  time  on  earth 
may  will  unworthily,  for  God  makes  life  free.  But 
finally  each  life  learns  through  the  life  of  man  the 
firm  purpose  which  makes  it  worthy  wider  life. 
Then,  holding  firm  its  purpose,  it  wins,  freely  pur- 
posing always,  the  wider  and  wider  life  willed  for 
life  immortal  when  God's  will  called  life  into  being. 

ISIan  who  wills  for  life's  work  of  earth,  who  wills 
how  that  work  be  done,  wins  by  work  finished  well 
tlie  firm  purpose  which  life  must  win  while  it  is  on 
earth.  Man,  the  worker  free,  wills  when  life  work 
well.  His  will  God  made  his  power,  his  will  God 
made  free.  Will  for  work  finished  well  Hfe  holds 
while  it  is  when  that  will  has  by  man  been  won. 


48  Math  The  Life  Free 

Purpose  firm  for  life  worthy  life  holds  firm  while 
it  is  when  that  firm  purpose  man  has  won.  Think, 
man  who  works  life's  work,  think  well. 

Will  Higher  made  life  man  for  earth;  Will 
Higher  made  life  immortal  self;  then  man  is  life 
immortal.  While  the  life  wills  on  earth  it  is  man. 
While  the  life  wills  its  will  is  free.  That  life  work 
man's  work  Higher  Will  purposes;  that  life  im- 
mortal win  by  the  work  of  man  firm  purpose 
Higher  Will  purposes.  Life  works  on  earth  the 
work  that  helps  life  while  it  is.  Man,  the  life,  pur- 
poses that  work  be  well  or  ill  finished.  Man,  the 
life,  finds  by  will  used  well  that  firm  purpose  which 
life  holds  firm  forever.  Then  the  work  of  man, 
well  and  firmly  finished,  helps  life  forever.  Think, 
man  who  is  life  immortal,  think  well. 

We  who  have  won  the  higher  life  purposed  by 
God  won  it  through  His  help.  He  helps  life  whom 
He  made  free.  That  help  life  wins  by  work  and 
prayer,  work  to  be  and  do  as  He  wills,  prayer  hon- 
est for  His  help.  That  free  life  who  has  His  pur- 
pose to  fulfill  finds  the  free  will  which  He  made  its 
power  helped  by  Him  when  that  life  honestly  prays 
for  His  help.  Would  life  free,  then,  be  by  him 
ruled?  Would  He  lielp  life  which  He  rules?  The 
will  of  God  wills  for  life  His  help  when  life  needs 
His  help,  for  that  will  which  he  made  free  He 
knows  may  be  unwisely  used.    He  who  made  life 


Man,  Worker  on  Earth  for  Life  Immortal     49 

free,  who  rules  life,  whose  purpose  life  fulfills,  helps 
life  who  asks  Him  honestly.  All  lives  fulfill  His 
purpose;  not  one  but  wins  this  higher  life  finally. 
When  by  His  help  life  wills  well  He  frees  that  life 
from  weak  will,  from  weak  purpose,  from  life  of 
man. 

Wilherforce. 

That  life  learn  firm  purpose  man  works.  His 
life's  work  the  man  has;  for  that  work  he  uses  the 
life's  free  purpose.  When  he  uses  well  that  pur- 
pose life  finishes  well  the  work  willed  for  it  on 
earth.  Then  this  man  who  works  the  life's  work 
to-day  may  learn  firm  purpose,  and  life  freed  prof- 
its thereby  well,  for  in  life  wider  it  uses  the  firm 
purpose  won  on  earth  by  man. 

Work  that  teaches  life  man  finds  help  when  thus 
he  wishes.  Man  works  life's  work  for  earth  pur- 
posed. Man  wills  how  that  work  be  finished. 
When  life  finishes  well  the  work  purposed  for 
teaching  on  earth  Will  Higher  frees  that  life. 
Work  that  helps  life  man  has,  but  that  work  helps 
life  only  when  firmly  done  and  firmly  finished. 
The  life  works  on  earth  by  God's  purpose.  The 
work  given  to  life  by  Him  teaches  life,  but  when 
it  teaches  life  itself  chooses.  Why  wait  for  the  firm 
purpose  which  you  may  find  now,  man  who  works 
life's  work,  why  wait?    This  time  life  on  earth,  this 


50  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

man  who  is  life  now,  finds  that  firm  pm'pose  if  this 
man  thus  chooses.    Think  then,  think  well,  O  man. 

Wide  life  is  when  freed,  firm  its  purpose  to  keep 
worthy.  High  its  purpose  when  life  has  found, 
while  it  is  man,  firm  purpose  to  win  worth.  Help 
men  to  understand  the  word  from  freed  lives,  we 
pray  Thee,  O  God. 

Will  free  man  uses  for  his  work;  life  wills  as 
man ;  then  life  wills  how  man  works.  Yet  man  wills 
using  his  own  free  will.  Have  we  taught  you  then 
wrongly,  men  who  work?  No.  Man  is  the  life 
who  wills  how  work  be  done.  While  that  life  ^/orks 
on  earth  man  wills,  for  he  wills  as  life.  For  his 
work  willing  well  he  wills  well  for  life's  work.  Life 
wills  for  life  wider  then  when  man  wills  firmly  for 
his  work.  Think,  who  work  life's  work  to-day. 
Why  work  weakly?  The  firm  life  wins  freedom. 
You,  life  free,  work  the  work  which  life  has  by 
God's  purpose  to  finish  well.  Then  think  wisely, 
O  man. 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
wills  for  life  man's  work  as  teaching.  Then  this 
man's  work  teaches  life  for  whom  God  purposes. 
Will  firm  work  teaches  when  it  is  well  and  firmly 
done.  Finished  work  teaches  firm  purpose.  Work 
that  man  has,  then,  teaches  life  firm  purpose.    But 


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this  man  works  weakly  perhaps.  This  man  then 
finds  httle  help  from  his  work,  and  the  life  who 
is  this  man  fails  to  fulfill  God's  purpose.  When 
life  finds  through  work  firm  purpose,  that  life  finds 
purpose  which  is  help  forever.  Think,  man  who 
works.  Your  work  teaches  life  if  you  wish.  Think 
well  then,  for  life  profits  by  man's  wise  thinking. 
Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  man's 
work  that  by  that  work  life  learn  firm  purpose  and 
firm  will.  Help  life  finds  while  it  is  through  the 
work  of  man  then,  for  that  work  teaches  the  pow- 
ers that  life  uses  in  wider  life.  Purpose  firm  won 
in  life  of  man  helps  life  higher.  Purpose  firm  won 
by  man,  then,  helps  life  higher,  for  man  is  the  life 
on  earth.  Work  then,  the  work  man  has  to-day, 
will  teach  life  firm  purpose  needed  while  life  is,  if 
the  man  thus  chooses.  Think  then,  O  man,  think 
well. 


IV 
WORK  THAT  HELPS  LIFE 


WORK   THAT   HELPS   LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WE  who  live  wider  life  tell  for  men 
thought  full  of  help.  Knowing 
man's  life,  believing  that  our  words 
will  be  help,  we  tell  thought  which 
life  of  man  needs.  Word  full  of  help  men  will  find 
this  book,  we  pray  God. 

Full  of  meaning  for  men  is  this  thought — man 
works  life's  earth  work.  But  what  meaning  would 
men  find  from  that  word  without  the  help  we  give? 
Man  works  life's  work.  His  life,  being  willed 
worth  for  life  higher,  worth  which  fits  life  for 
wider  being,  lives  where  man  is  life,  working  that 
work  by  which  it  prepares  for  wider  work  beyond 
earth.  When  by  that  work  well  done  life  learns 
purpose  firm  for  work  life  is  ready  for  wider  work. 
But  for  life  further  purpose  is  by  God  willed  than 
for  work  only.  Life  worthy  man  finds  by  firm  pur- 
pose. Man  wills  what  'life  be  while  life  is  on  earth. 
Man  purposes  while  he  lives  the  man's  life  for  life 
wider  unknowing  that  thus  he  purposes  perhaps. 

55 


56  Man,  The  Life  Free 

But  life  is  willed  to  find  worth  for  higher,  fuller 
life.  Where  man  wills  as  life  that  worth  will  be 
found ;  where  man  is  life  that  worth  must  be  found, 
for  life's  Maker  thus  wills.  His  purpose  who  wills 
for  life  its  being  must  be  fulfilled  by  free  will,  for 
He  makes  life  free,  and  when  by  the  firm  purpose 
won  through  work  finished  well  man  wins  worth  of 
life,  thus  Will  Higher  is  fulfilled.  When  man  who 
wills  for  life  its  earth  worth  wishes  that  firm  pur- 
pose is  by  life  won.  Then  the  higher  purpose  of 
man's  Maker  fulfilled  by  man's  free  will  frees  life 
from  man  and  earth.  When  by  wise  free  will  life 
while  it  is  man  reaches  the  worth  which  God  pur- 
poses for  life  on  earth  He  translates  life  to  free- 
dom, wider  life,  fuller  life.  While  life  wills  as  man 
on  earth  then,  the  wise  purpose  of  Him  who  makes 
life  free  teaches  wisdom  in  use  of  free  purpose.  But 
what  for  life  who  fulfills  that  purpose  late  ?  When 
life  who  wills  as  man  purposes  worthily  God  frees 
it  from  man  and  earth ;  but  when  life  purposes  un- 
worthily He  wills  for  it  the  life  of  teaching  again. 
Why  was  life  willed  work  of  man  then?  The 
meaning  of  man's  work  we  tell  thus — 

God  purposes  that  while  life  wills  as  man  it  find 
firm  purpose,  use  that  purpose  for  worth,  prepare 
while  it  is  man  for  wider  life.  Firm  purpose  then, 
won  by  life  as  man  is  willed  for  life.  But  life  made 
free  purposes  well  or  not  as  it  wishes.    Firm  pur- 


Work  that  Helps  Life  57 

pose  won  by  life  that  wills  to  work  well  helps  life 
to  worth.  If  man  needs  work  life  needs  work,  for 
life  on  earth  is  man.  Then  man  who  works  well 
finds  the  purpose  by  which  life  wins  that  worth 
which  He  who  made  life  wills,  and  work  which 
life  has  by  God's  pm*pose  teaches  wise,  free  purpose 
by  which  life  wins  the  higher  life  purposed  by  life's 
Wilier.  While  life,  then,  wills  for  man,  while  life 
purposes  that  which  helps  man,  it  wins  by  God's 
purpose  that  wise  firm  free  purpose  by  which  it 
makes  itself  worthy  wider,  fuller  life.  Worth  of 
man  is  worth  of  life  itself.  While  man  works,  then, 
life  wins  by  God's  purpose  the  firm,  wise,  free  pur- 
pose which  brings  for  life  its  worth  for  freedom. 
Man  wills  to-day  for  life.  Wise  life  wills  firmly; 
feeble  man's  life  wills  unworthily.  Man  who  works 
life's  work,  think.  As  you  will  for  work  life  itself 
wills.  Firm  purpose  wins  freedom,  weak  purpose 
wins  but  life  of  man  once  more.  Well  life  pur- 
poses when  thus  man  purposes.  Work  teaches  life 
that  which  wider  life  needs,  firm  purpose.  Think 
well,  man  who  works  life's  work,  think  well. 

Work  that  life  has  while  it  is  man  helps  life  when 
it  works  wider  work.  Then  finish  well  the  man's 
work,  life  who  would  work  wider  work.  Help  life 
thus.  Why  work  weakly,  man  who  is  life?  Why 
will  weakly  for  your  work?  You  find  that  firm 
purpose  which  helps  life  forever  when  you  find  it 


58  Man,  The  Life  Free 

through  work  well  finished.  Work  then  well,  O 
man;  will  well  for  your  man's  work;  thus  help  life 
freed.  Why  has  life  work?  That  it  win  firm  pur- 
pose. Then  win  that  firm  purpose  this  life  may 
who  is  this  man  to-day.  Think,  life  of  man,  think 
well. 

Work  helps  life.  That  life  work  on  earth  for 
wider  work  God  wills;  that  life  work  in  wider  life 
than  that  of  earth  He  wills.  Work  of  man  is  life's 
first  work.  Work  of  life  in  wider  life  is  helped  by 
the  firm  purpose  which  life  learns  through  man's 
work.  The  work  that  man  has  helps  life  when 
through  it  life  wins  firm  purpose.  When  firm  pur- 
pose is  found,  life  wins  worth  for  life  wider.  Man 
thinks  his  work  helps  man  only.  This  life  works 
helped  when  man  by  his  work  has  learned  firm  pur- 
pose. What  for  life  purposes  life's  Maker?  Wider 
life  won,  wider  life  working  for  worth  wider,  life 
helped  by  man,  wider  life  won  through  the  firm 
purpose  found  by  man.  Then  think,  man  who 
works.    We  help  the  man  who  thinks  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  that  man 
find  the  firm  purpose  which  helps  life  forever.  That 
purpose  won,  life  wins  wider  life.  That  purpose 
won,  life  holds  it  firm  while  it  is.  What  food  for 
thought,  man  who  wills  for  earth  life!  What  has 
the  word  been  of  help  to  your  work?  The  life 
works  the  man's  work,  the  life  muIIs  as  man.     The 


Work  that  Helps  Life  59 

life  purposes  that  the  work  be  well  done  when  man 
thus  purposes.  Heed  the  word,  man  who  would 
win  wider  life.  That  which  you  do  this  time  of  life 
in  man  concerns  the  life  immortal.  Think  then, 
that  life  find  help. 

Wilberforce. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  the  work 
of  man  on  earth.  What  life  wills  as  man?  The 
life  who  is  immortal  self;  that  life  works  man's 
work,  lives  man's  life,  wills  as  man.  When  man 
wills  then,  life  immortal  wills,  and  that  which  life 
immortal  wills  for  the  life  of  man  holds  the  life  to 
earth  or  wins  for  the  life  freedom.  What  has  life 
willed  while  it  is  this  man?  Has  it  willed  well? 
Then  life  finds  freedom.  Has  it  willed  not  well? 
Then  the  life  wins  further  work  that  teaches.  Firm 
purpose  life  finds  where  it  is  man ;  thus  God  wills. 
Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day,  this  life  who  wills 
to-day,  wins,  if  the  man  thus  chooses,  firm  purpose 
that  wins  freedom,  or  weak  purpose  that  wins  fur- 
ther life  on  earth.  What  life  wins  freedom?  This 
life,  if  this  man  thus  chooses.  Then  think  well,  O 
man. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
purposes  for  life  work  that  work  be  teaching.  Life 
for  whom  wider  life  is  purposed  learns  by  work  that 
which  wins   wider  life.     Firm   purpose   that   life 


60  31  an.  The  Life  Free 

learns  thus  wins  for  life  the  worth  wliich  permits 
life  higher.  Firm  purpose  which  life  learns  by 
work  helps  life  forever.  Think,  man  who  is  life 
to-day.  Work  teaches  firm  purpose  when  you  thus 
wish.  This  freed  life  wins  its  yet  wider  life  using 
firm  purpose  which  life  must  find  while  it  is  man. 
This  life  wills  for  life  wider  by  the  firm  will  won 
through  work  on  earth.  Think,  man  who  is  life 
to-day,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
purposes  that  by  life's  free  purpose  it  win  the  life 
wider  which  His  will  makes  life's  portion  beyond 
earth.  Will  for  life  worthy  fulfills  God's  purpose. 
Man  who  wills  for  life,  think.  The  life  worthy  of 
man  wins  that  life  wider  which  God  purposes. 
When  life  wins  the  wider  life  depends  on  man's 
purpose.  When  life  finds  life  wider  life  wills  itself. 
Man  is  the  life  on  earth.  His  free  purpose,  then, 
well  and  wisely  used,  makes  life  immortal  ready  for 
life  higher.    Think  well,  man  who  is  free. 

Purpose  for  life  worthy,  man  who  is  life  to-day. 
Purpose  for  work  well,  purpose  for  life  worthy 
firmly.  Then  you  purpose  for  life  well.  Has  the 
word  we  tell  helped  the  man  who  reads?  Then 
this  life  thanks  God. 

Miltiades. 
AVill  Higher,  man's  JNIaker,  purposes  for  life 


Work  that  Helps  Life  61 

while  it  is  man.  He  purposes  for  life  work  that  life 
win  firm  purpose.  He  purposes  for  life  firm  pur- 
pose that  helps  life  forever.  He  purposes  that  life 
while  it  is  man  find  that  firm  purpose.  That  pur- 
pose which  man  makes  firm  life  holds  firm  while  it 
is.  What  food  for  thought  here,  what  word  for 
help  to  men ! 

Will  Higher  gives  to  life  work  that  through 
work  life  learn  firm  purpose.  When  that  firm  pur- 
pose is  won  man  himself  chooses.  When  that  firm 
purpose  is  won  life  wins  wider  life.  Then  what 
would  the  life  who  wills  to-day  wish  to  find,  firm 
purpose  that  brings  higher  life,  or  weak  purpose 
that  brings  but  man's  life  again?  The  man  who 
thus  wishes  finds  firm  purpose.  The  life  who  finds 
firm  purpose  wins  wider  life.  Then  think,  man 
who  is  free,  think  well. 

The  work  that  life  wills  finished  well  helps  that 
life.  When  man  wills  that  his  work  be  well  finished 
that  helps  life.  When  life  finishes  the  life  of  man 
on  earth  wider  life  begins.  Work  is  still  life's  por- 
tion. Life  works  both  while  it  is  man  and  when  it 
has  found  wider  life.  Work  is  help  for  life.  While 
life  wills  firmly  life  wins  worth ;  when  life  purposes 
firmly  life  wins  freedom.  Help  men  to  under- 
stand, we  pray  Thee,  O  God.  What  helps  life 
while  it  is  man?  Firm  purpose.  That  firm  pur- 
pose life  is  taught  by  the  work  of  man  on  earth. 


62  Man,  The  Life  Free 

When  life  finds  firm  purpose  it  wins  the  wider  hfe. 
When  Hfe  weakens  in  purpose  hfe  remains  working 
man's  work.  Then  this  hfe,  this  man  who  is  hfe 
now,  helps  life  to  win  wider  life  when  he  works  his 
man's  work  firmly.  Purpose  firm  wins  wider  life; 
purpose  weak  wins  man's  life  once  more.  Think, 
man  who  purposes  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  INIaker,  wills  for  life  worth 
won  by  itself.  When  life  wins  worth  on  earth  he 
frees  the  life  from  earth.  Man  is  the  life  on  earth. 
Then  when  man  wills  that  his  life  find  worth  he 
wills  that  life  fulfill  God's  purpose  that  life  find 
finally  the  worth  which  frees.  JNIan  wills  for  life 
while  it  prepares  on  earth  for  wider  life.  What 
wins  life  freed?  Firm  purpose.  Work  well  fin- 
ished teaches  firm  purpose.  Work  then  firmly, 
man  who  is  free  life,  work  firmly. 

Man  wills  that  life  win  wider  life  when  his  firm 
purpose  makes  his  life  worthy.  When  life  finds 
firm  purpose  by  man's  free  will  life  immortal  wins 
life  higher.  When  man,  the  life,  finds  firm  pur- 
pose, life  holds  firm  its  purpose  forever.  Think 
what  this  means,  man  who  wills  on  earth.  What 
has  purpose  been  of  help  for  you  ?  Think  well,  that 
life  profit  thereby.  This  life  won,  life  purposes  for 
yet  wider  life.  When  man  finds  firm  purpose  his 
will  wins  that  which  helps  life  wider  to  find  yet 
wider  life.    Tliink,  man  who  is  life  to-day.    When 


Work  that  Helps  Life  63 

man,  the  life,  finds  firm  purpose,  life  immortal  has 
found  it.     Think  then,  man  who  is  life,  think  well. 

Work  that  helps  man  helps  life.  When  life  by 
man's  work  wins  firm  purpose  life  has  won  help 
while  it  lasts.  We  who  have  won  wider  life  worked 
man's  work.  Now  life  freed  finds  help  to  win  yet 
wider  life  through  firm  purpose  won  while  we  were 
men. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that,  while 
it  is  man,  life  find  firm  purpose.  His  purpose  life 
fulfills  while  it  works  as  man,  while  that  work  which 
He  wills  for  teaching  of  life  itself,  man's  work  of 
earth,  is  done.  He  purposes  for  life  work  to  be 
help.  Work  done  well  and  finished  well  helps  man, 
helps  life  itself.  That  help  man  finds  when  he  thus 
wishes.  Work,  to  be  help,  must  be  well  and  firmly 
done  and  finished.  Work  helps  life,  then,  when 
man  wishes,  for  man  wills  how  work  on  earth  be 
done.  Then  help  that  is  help  for  life  forever  is 
found  when  man  works  well.  This  life  works 
firmly.  Work  helps  this  life  then,  for  work  helps 
life  forever.  But  work,  to  be  the  help  which  God 
purposes,  wins  firm  purpose,  firm  will.  This  life 
wills  firmly.  But  life  wins  firm  purpose  while  it 
works  man's  work.  Then  think,  man  who  works 
for  life,  think  well.  Why  falter,  man  who  works 
life's  work?  Work  helps  life  if  you  thus  choose. 
Think  well,  vou  who  work  for  life,  think  well. 


V 

WILL  FOR  LIFE  WORTHY 


WILL   FOE   LIFE   WORTHY 

D?\  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  life's  Maker,  places 
life  on  earth,  there  to  attain  will  for 
life  worthy.  Man,  the  life  purposed 
to  find  that  will,  wills  for  that  will 
when  he  wishes,  for  the  Maker  of  life  made  it  free. 
Yet  life  for  whom  that  will  is  by  God  purposed 
while  it  is  man  finds  that  purposed  will.  Then, 
though  this  man  win  it  not,  life  will  surely  win  it  in 
a  man.  While  life  works  on  earth  to  find  that  will 
it  is  more  than  one  man.  Then,  though  this  man 
will  weakly  or  unworthily,  the  life  finds,  for  thus 
God  purposes,  that  will  while  it  lives  as  man.  That 
Will  who  lives  forever,  purposing  while  life  is  for 
life  made  by  Him,  will  finally  by  life  for  whom  He 
wills  free  will  be  fulfilled.  All  lives  fulfill  that 
Higher  Will;  none  Avill  unworthily  for  always. 
Man  who  wills  as  life,  who  is  life,  finally  wins  that 
will  for  life  worthy  purposed  for  life  by  its  Maker, 
God. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  the  life 

67 


68  Man,  The  Life  Free 

while  it  is  man.  Life  of  personal  self  man  is  by 
Him  made.  That  life  has  His  purpose  to  fulfill. 
To  that  life  while  it  is  there  on  earth  He  gives  pow- 
ers which  that  life  uses  to  fulfill  His  purpose.  To 
that  life  He  wills  teaching  by  man's  life  of  work. 
Then  His  purpose  life  fulfills,  taught  by  His  pur- 
posed teaching,  the  life  and  work  of  man.  Man 
then,  the  life  free  in  will,  the  life  willed  worth  by 
Him  who  made  it,  wins  the  purposed  worth  by  his 
wise  use  of  those  powers  which  God  gives.  Life 
free  fulfills  God's  purpose  itself. 

Man,  the  life  of  free  will,  the  life  free  of  purpose, 
wins  by  wise  use  of  those  powers  the  worth  of  life 
on  earth,  purposed  thus  to  win  it.  Then  life  wins 
by  man's  free  will  the  worth  purposed  for  it  by 
God.  Will  free  wins  for  life  its  purposed  worth 
for  life  higher.  Will  free  makes  life  of  man  wor- 
thy. Have  we  helped  the  man  who  wills  for  life? 
That  will  which  life  uses  in  man,  that  will  which 
wins  life's  worth  for  higher  life,  is  the  will  of  man. 
What  use  will  this  life  now  man  make  of  its  free 
will,  wise  or  weak  ?  You  who  live  the  man's  life  win 
freedom  by  wise  use  of  that  free  will  which  the 
man  uses  now.  Think,  who  have  life  to  free,  think 
well. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  by  His  purpose 
who  made  life  free.  Then  the  free  will  which  He 
makes  life's  power  fulfills  His  purpose  for  life. 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  69 

That  life  for  itself  will  worth  He  wills;  that  life 
win  on  earth  worth  for  life  higher  He  wills.  Self  of 
man,  that  personal  life  who  wills  of  free  will,  wins 
by  its  own  use  of  the  will  God  makes  its  power  the 
worth  which  He  purposes.  Man,  the  life  free,  wins 
by  wise  use  of  his  will  the  life  higher  purposed  by 
Him  who  made  life.  For  worth  willing,  choosing 
thus  to  will,  life  fulfills  God's  purpose. 

That  life  who,  firmly  purposing  while  it  wills  as 
man,  wins  wider  life,  finds  firm  purpose  its  help. 
Firm  purpose  which  life  finds  in  man  it  holds  firm 
in  life  higher.  Firm  purpose  that  wins  life's  worth 
there  on  earth  wins  the  worth  of  life  freed.  While 
life  wills  as  man  it  finds  that  firm  purpose  which 
helps  life  wider.  The  man  who  is  life  to-day  finds 
that  firm  purpose  if  thus  he  wishes,  for  he  purposes 
as  life  immortal.  For  life  man  purposes  well  who 
finds  firm  purpose,  firm  for  both  work  and  for  life 
worthy. 

Man  wills  for  life  worthy  when  he  thus  wishes, 
and  by  his  life  worthy  life  immortal  wins  freedom. 
Then  work  for  that  will,  man  who  has  life  to  free. 
While  you  will  that  will  may  be  won.  Think  well, 
man  of  earth.  Why  wait  to  win  that  will?  This 
time  of  life  on  earth  life  will  win  freedom  if  you  the 
man  thus  will. 

Life  willed  worth  by  Higher  Will  finds  that 
worth  using  will  free.  But  life  free  finds  that  worth 


70  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

wlien  it  wishes.  Will  for  life  worthy  is  free  will 
taught.  That  free  power  which  life  uses  in  man 
and  forever  wins  for  life  its  worth.  His  purpose 
wlio  made  life  free  will  be  by  that  life  fulfilled. 
For  life  free  He  purposes  worth  won  by  itself. 
Then  when  man  wishes  life  fulfills  God's  purpose. 
That  which  life  wills  for  itself  finally  fulfills  God's 
purpose.  Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day  fulfills 
God's  purpose  if  this  man  wishes.  By  will  free, 
man's  power  while  life  wills  on  earth,  life  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  life  free.  This  life 
won,  life  wills  firmly  for  worth;  this  life  won,  firm 
will  life  uses  while  it  is.  Then,  man  who  to-day 
wills  for  life  immortal,  will  worthily.  Firm  will 
won  by  life  in  man,  firm  purpose  won  by  life  in 
man  life  holds  firm  to  eternity.  What  food  for 
thought  for  men  here!    We  tell  it  for  help. 

His  purpose  who  made  life  free  the  free  purpose 
of  life  fulfills.  Man,  who  has  for  his  life  to  win 
the  worth  which  frees  life  from  earth,  wills  for  life 
worthy  when  he  thus  wishes.  Man  free  in  use  of 
his  power,  life's  will,  has  that  free  power  by  God's 
will,  and  that  power,  then,  wins  for  life  the  worth 
of  life  in  man  purposed  by  God.  That  free  power 
man  uses  well  finally,  though  this  man  may  use  it 
unworthily.  Made  life  for  whom  freed  life  is  by 
God  purposed,  willed  worth  won  by  free  will,  man, 
as  life,  finds  that  worth.    But  this  man  wins  that 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  71 

worth  when  by  his  wise  use  of  free  will  he  himself 
makes  life  of  personal  self  worthy.  His  free  will, 
life's  free  power,  he  uses  well  when  he  wishes.  This 
man,  then,  may  by  his  free  will  find  that  worth 
which  wins  for  life  personal  the  higher  life.  Won 
by  man  himself  when  he  wishes  to  win  it  is  the  wider 
life  which  God  purposes. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  that  life  find  firm 
purpose  while  it  is  man,  wills  for  life  the  teaching 
of  work.  On  earth  life  works  man's  work.  With 
free  will  to  work  well  or  ill  as  it  chooses  life  works 
man's  work.  Then  by  free  will  life  works  the  work 
for  teaching  purposed.  Will  free  man  has  as  life 
which,  by  the  purpose  of  its  Maker,  learns  firm  pur- 
pose. Firm  purpose  that  God  wills  life  learns  by 
work  well  done  and  well  finished.  Well  finished 
work  then  helps  life  to  win  the  firm  purpose  through 
wise  use  of  which  firm  purpose  it  wins  life  wider. 
The  life  wills  as  man  wills.  Think,  man  who  works 
life's  work,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  wills  that  life  win 
its  worth  itself,  purposes  that  life  win  that  worth 
which  helps  life  forever  while  it  is  man  on  earth. 
Life  free  wins  worth  by  free  will  its  own.  Will 
Higher  purposes  that  life  win  thus  that  worth  which 
brings  higher  life.  Then  the  worth  which  man  wins 
by  free  will  wins  for  his  life  personal  higher  life. 
That  life  who  wins  worth  while  it  is  man,  that  life 


72  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

who  wins  the  wortli  purposed  for  life  on  earth,  thus 
wins  higher  hfe.  Tlien  man,  the  life  on  earth,  wills 
himself  the  worth  wliich  wins  for  life  personal,  his 
immortal  self,  the  higher  life  of  freedom.  Wide 
life  becomes  when  freed,  high  its  purpose  becomes. 
That  life  who  wins  higher  life  is  the  personal  self 
of  man ;  that  life  who  wins  life  higher  wins  it  while 
it  is  man;  then  this  man  who  is  life  to-day  may,  if 
thus  he  wishes,  win  for  his  personal  self  the  higher 
life.  Full  with  meaning  for  men  is  the  word  we 
tell.  Heed  it,  man  who  has  free  will.  Why  wait  to 
win  that  worth  which  frees?  This  time  that  worth 
may  be  won.  Then  this  life,  this  life  who  is  this 
man,  wins  higher  life  if  this  man  thus  wishes.  Think 
well,  who  live  man's  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  INIaker,  was  when  life  of 
man  was  not.  He  who  made  man  is  the  Wilier  of 
life.  He  who  willed  life  to  be  is  Wilier  of  that 
which  men  name  the  Universe.  His  will  rules  all 
that  He  made.  To  life  willed  being  by  Him  He 
wills  free  will  its  own.  His  will  for  life  is  to  be 
fulfilled  by  the  will  which  He  wills  to  life.  Man, 
the  life  on  earth,  fulfills  His  will  by  his  own  free 
will.  Life  while  it  is  fulfills  His  will  by  its  own 
free  will.  The  will  which  the  life  uses  in  this  man 
fulfills  God's  pin'pose,  then,  when  this  life  wishes, 
for  this  life,  as  all  life,  He  made  free.  What  for 
life  purj^oses  God?    Will  for  life  worthy.     Then 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  73 

God's  purpose  for  life  will  be  fulfilled  when  life 
finds  firm  will  for  life  worthy.  He  who  wills  for 
life  gives  life  the  means  by  which  to  fulfill  His 
will,  and  life  that  wills  for  itself  its  worth  finally 
finds  that  firm  will  for  life  worthy  which  Higher 
Will  purposes.  Well  has  the  Wilier  of  life  pur- 
posed. His  purpose  life  fulfills  finally  and  surely. 
Not  one  life  but  fulfills  God's  will.  His  purpose 
that  life  win  by  free  will  the  worth  that  wins  higher 
life  all  lives  fulfill.  Then  this  man  who  wills  for 
life  worthy  wins  for  his  life  the  higher  life  pur- 
posed by  God  from  the  willing  of  life.  Think,  who 
will  to-day,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  life  wider  life  than 
that  of  earth,  purposes  that  by  free  will  its  own 
life  find  the  worth  which  fits  it  for  the  wider  life. 
When  life  free  of  will  wins  that  worth  it  chooses 
itself.  But  the  will  of  God  life  fulfills  surely.  Then 
the  life  that  is  man  to-day  will  fulfill  God's  will, 
for  He  who  wills  that  life  be  free  purposes  that  it 
win  wider  life.  Fulfilling  then  of  free  will  its  own 
God's  purpose,  making  life  worthy  of  man's  choice, 
life  thus  wins  the  wider  life  purposed  by  Him  who 
wills  for  life  forever.  When  life  finds  worth  man 
himself  chooses.  Think  then,  man  who  would  win 
wider  life.  Your  own  will  may,  this  time  of  life 
on  earth,  win  it.     Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  for  life  worthy,  man  who  has  will  free. 


74  Man,  The  Life  Free 

]Man  wills  whether  life  find  wider  life  or  work  man's 
work  again.  Man  wills  whether  life  find  freedom 
from  earth  or  life  where  man  lives  again.  The  firm 
will  of  man,  well  and  wisely  used,  wins  life  wider. 
Will  firmly  then,  man  of  earth.  This  time  life  may 
win  freedom  if  you  thus  will.  Heed  my  word,  man 
who  has  life  to  free. 

Will  Higher  made  life  man  for  earth ;  His  pur- 
pose man  fulfills  willing  for  life  worthy  himself. 
Will  Higher  made  life  immortal;  His  purpose  life 
immortal  fulfills  willing  its  worth  of  free  will. 
When  life  wills  well  He  frees  that  life  from  earth ; 
when  life  wills  unworthily  He  wills  for  that  life 
further  life  on  earth.  Man  himself  finds,  then,  the 
worth  which  wins  wider  life.  Man  who  wills  using 
free  will  wins  by  free  will  finally  the  worth  which 
God  purposes  for  life  on  earth.  Man,  the  free  life, 
wills  as  God  purposes  finally.  When  man  thus 
wills  life  immortal  wins  freedom.  Then  will  for 
life  worthy,  man  who  is  life  to-day.  Your  will  wins 
freedom  from  earth  for  your  life  immortal  if  thus 
you  wish.  Think  well,  man  who  wills  for  life,  think 
well. 

Will  of  life  man  has.  His  will  by  which  he  makes 
life  worthy  is  his  as  life  who  must  will  finally  for 
life  worthy.  Then  his  will,  his  free  will,  wins  for 
life  the  purposed  worth  for  wider  life.  Man  who 
has  life  to  free,  think.    Whv  wait  to  win  that  will 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  75 

for  life  worthy  which  life  finally  must  win?  This 
time  of  life  on  earth  man  may  find  that  will.  Then 
this  time  life  wins  freedom.  Think  then,  man  of 
free  will.  You  win  for  life  immortal  wider  life  if 
you  thus  choose. 

Will  Higher,  who  willed  for  life  its  being,  wills 
that  life  on  earth  be  man,  wills  for  life  free  will  its 
own.  Will  Higher  purposes  for  that  life  whom  He 
made  free  worth  for  wider,  fuller,  higher  life.  Will 
Higher  wills  for  life  worth  far  wider  than  it  finds 
on  earth.  Will  Higher  wills  that  while  life  works 
where  it  is  man  it  find  firm  purpose  for  life  worthy. 
His  purpose  for  life  life  fulfills  using  the  free  will 
which  He  makes  life's  power.  Man,  the  life,  wills 
finally  that  worth  which  Will  Higher  purposes  for 
life  on  earth.  When  life  freely  willing  finds  that 
worth  which  God  purposes  for  earth,  His  will  frees 
life  from  man  and  earth.  Will  for  life  worthy  man 
finds  as  life  who  by  God's  will  wins  higher  life. 
When  by  firm  purpose  man  makes  life  worthy  he 
chooses  for  himself.  Then  God's  purpose  for  life 
on  earth  is  fulfilled  by  life  of  free  will.  Man  is 
that  life.  When  life  free  chooses  worth  that  life 
fulfills  God's  purpose.  Then  think  what  man  has 
to  find,  man  who  is  free;  firm  purpose  for  life 
worthy. 

We  who  have  won  the  wider  life  wish  to  help 
men.    The  word  we  tell  will  help  if  men  think. 


76  3Ian.  The  Life  Free 

Wilhcrforce. 

JNIan,  life  for  whom  He  wlio  made  it  purposes, 
wills  his  worth  of  hfe  himself.  Won  by  free  life 
is  the  life  higher  purposed  by  God  when  His  will 
made  life  free.  Man,  life  free,  wills  for  that  life 
wider  then,  using  the  power  which  He  who  made 
him  gives.  That  power  willed  to  life  fulfills  God's 
purpose  for  life.  When  life  wins  worth  it  chooses 
itself,  for  God  makes  life  free.  Then  this  life  who 
wills  to-day  will  win  freedom  by  its  free  will,  yes, 
for  thus  God  purposes.  But  this  life  is  a  man  to- 
day. ]Man  wills  when  life  wins  higher  life,  for  man 
wills  the  worth  of  life  on  earth.  Think  well,  man 
who  is  free,  think  well. 

His  purpose  who  made  life  free  the  free  life  ful- 
fills. ]Man,  the  life,  finally  wins  that  worth  which 
God  purposes.  Yet  this  thought  helps  only  the 
man  who  thinks  wisely.  Free  will  life  uses  for  its 
worth  always.  Think  then,  man  who  would  win 
freedom  for  life,  think  wisely. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  that  life  find  worth 
while  it  is  man  for  life  wider,  purposes  that  the 
life  will  for  life  worthy  then,  in  this  man?  Yes, 
if  this  man  thus  chooses.  But  this  man  wills  that 
his  life  be  worthy  by  free  will.  That  free  will  which 
God  made  life's  power  wins  for  life  its  wider  life 
by  man's  choice  then.     For  what  would  the  man 


Will  for  Ufe  Worthy  77 

will  who  wishes  wider  life?  What  would  this  man 
will  then,  I  mean?  When  this  man  wishes  higher 
life  he  wills  for  it  himself.  But  this  man  keeps  life 
to  earth  when  for  life  unworthy  he  wills.  You  who 
may  free  life,  think.  What  would  you  think  well 
to  choose,  life  higher,  or  life  of  man  again  ?  Think 
well,  man  of  life  free,  think  well. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds  himself.  Will 
that  he  uses  for  life  worthy  life  uses  thus  in  higher 
life.  AVhen  man  wins  that  will,  life  has  won  it. 
Firm  will  for  life  worthy  life  freed  uses.  Work 
for  that  will,  man  who  would  find  life  higher,  will 
firmly  always,  keep  purpose  firm.  Work  finished 
well  helps  life  while  it  wins  the  firm  purpose  that 
wins  freedom.  Then  will  firmly  for  both  work 
and  life  worthy,  that  your  life  may  this  time  win 
freedom. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  in  man ;  thus  life's 
Maker  wills ;  yet  life  free  wins  that  will.  How  will 
that  help  men?  Thus — will  for  life  worthy  life 
learns  by  the  teaching  of  life  on  earth.  Man  wills 
that  which  he  wishes,  but  life  finally  finds  will  for 
life  worthy.  Taught  by  life  of  man  life  is  surely. 
Will  free  wins  life  worthy,  will  free  is  taught  on 
earth  wisdom.  Then  life  taught  wise  use  of  free 
will,  life  finally  taught  by  life  on  earth,  wins  the 
will  for  life  worthy  which  helps  life  forever. 

jNIan  wills  whether  life  immortal  work  earth  work 


78  Man,  The  Life  Free 

again  or  win  life  higher.  What  food  for  thought 
this  gives  for  men !  What  help  it  may  give !  Man 
himself,  who  is  wholly  free,  decides  whether  im- 
mortal life  work  man's  work  once  more  or  live 
higher  life.     Think,  man  of  earth,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  ^laker,  wills  for  life  worth 
for  v/ider  life  won  by  life  as  man.  Will  free  life 
uses  while  it  is.  Man,  who  wills  for  life  on  earth, 
finds  his  ^\'orth  willing  it  himself.  When  man 
firmly  wills  for  life  worthy  life  immortal  finds  firm 
purpose  by  which  it  keeps  worthy  in  life  wider. 
What  then  has  life  while  it  is  man  to  find?  Firm 
purpose.    Then  life  wider  is  firm  to  eternity. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  Will  Higher,  man's 
Maker,  wills  for  life  this  wider  life  when  by  will 
for  life  worthy  life  wins  this  life  itself.  What  food 
for  thought  this  will  give  to  the  man  who  thinks! 
Man,  life  personal,  wills  with  free  will,  purposes 
his  worth  himself.  JNIan,  life  inmiortal,  wills  when 
life  finds  this  life  then,  for  wiien  man  wins  the 
worth  which  God  purposes  for  life  on  earth,  that 
life  He  frees  from  earth.  Think  then,  man  who 
wills  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is,  purposes  that  while  life  works  on  earth 
it  win  the  firm  purpose  that  keeps  life  forever 
worthy.  The  work  of  man  teaches  that  firm  pur- 
pose when  man  thus  wishes.     Has  life  found  firm 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  79 

purpose  while  this  man  works?  Think,  man  who 
works.  Life  finds  when  man  thus  chooses  the  firm 
purpose  which  helps  life  forever.  Think  well,  O 
man. 

Will  Higher  purposes  that  while  life  is  man  it 
find  firm  purpose,  yet  His  will  makes  life  free. 
He  purposes  for  life  worth  won  by  itself;  His  pur- 
pose life  fulfills  by  free  purpose  its  own.  What 
food  for  thought  this  gives  for  men,  what  food  for 
deep  thinking!  That  free  purpose  by  which  man 
wins  his  life  worthy  God  makes  life's  power.  That 
firm  purpose  by  which  life  wins  the  freed  life  man 
uses  to  make  his  life  worthy.  Think  then,  man 
who  has  life  to  free,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
worth  for  higher  life  won  by  free  will.  Life's  will, 
that  power  which  life  uses  while  it  is,  life  uses  while 
it  is  man  on  earth.  The  life  who  wills  freely  be- 
cause made  free  by  Higher  Will  wins  higher,  fuller 
life ;  but  the  life  who  wins  higher  life  wins  the  worth 
for  higher  life  by  will  free.  Man  who  is  life  on 
earth  wills  for  life's  worth  using  life's  free  will. 
That  purposed  worth,  that  purposed  life  higher, 
are  won  then  by  life  while  it  wills  as  man.  Heed 
the  word,  man  who  has  life  to  free.  The  life  which 
finds  higher  life  by  God's  will  finds  the  worth  for 
higher  life  by  its  own  free  will. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  while  life  is  for  that 


80  Man,  The  Life  Free 

life,  wills  that  life  find,  while  it  is  man  on  earth, 
the  worth  for  higher,  fuller  life.  That  which  He 
purposes  life  fulfills.  But  for  life  His  will  is  that 
it  be  free  to  will  when  it  make  itself  worthy.  His 
purpose  life  free  fulfills;  His  will  life  free  fulfills; 
His  will  all  life  fulfills.  Man,  the  life  on  earth, 
wills  when  life  immortal  become  worthy  for  higher, 
fuller  life.  What  food  for  thought,  here,  man  who 
is  free!  Why  let  life  wait  for  freedom?  You  will 
that  life  immortal  find  wider  life  when  you  thus 
choose.  Think  well,  who  would  win  freedom,  think 
well. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  willing  by  free 
will,  yet  life  finds  that  will  for  life  worthy  by  God's 
purpose.  When  life  wills  for  life  worthy,  then,  it 
fulfills  His  purpose  who  made  it  free.  Wise  life 
becomes  while  it  is  taught  by  life  on  earth.  Wise 
life  wills  for  life  worthy.  Man,  who  is  life  while 
life  wills  on  earth,  himself  finds  will  for  life  worthy, 
freely  choosing  that  will,  for  God  makes  life  free. 
He  purposes  for  life  while  it  wills  freely.  Man 
who  is  life  finds  will  for  life  worthy  himself,  but 
finds  that  will  by  God's  purpose.  Then  life  finds 
worth  because  it  nuist,  and  will  is  but  free  while 
life  wills  for  unworthiness?  No,  life  free  wills  for 
life  worthy.  Man  who  knows  his  will  is  free  wills 
for  life  worthy.  Free  while  life  is  will  is.  Man 
wins,  freely  willing  himself,  the  freedom  purposed 


Wilt  for  Life  Worthy  81 

by  God  when  He  made  life  free.  When  life  wins 
its  worth  itself,  willing  by  wise  firm  free  will,  God 
frees  that  life  from  man.  Think  well,  man  who  is 
free,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  JNIaker,  purposes  for  life 
worth  for  life  higher  won  while  life  is  man.  What 
food  for  thought  there  for  the  man  who  is  life! 
What  help  he  may  find  from  it!  JNIan  himself  wins 
freedom  for  life  immortal.  Think  for  life  then 
well,  man  w^ho  wishes  higher  life.  You  win  it  this 
time  if  thus  you  will.  Keep  firm,  O  man,  keep 
firm.  Then  happy  freed  life  you  win.  Help  men 
who  live  the  life  of  earth  by  Thy  help,  O  God. 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
worth  won  by  its  free  will.  Man  then,  who  is  the 
life  for  earth,  wills  for  that  which  He  purposes  who 
made  him  life.  This  man  who  wills  for  life  this 
time  fulfills  the  purpose  of  God  if  he  thus  wdlls. 
Yes,  man  who  is  free,  this  man  who  knows  he  is 
free,  may  be  worthy  choosing  worth.  His  w^orth 
won  by  his  free  will  makes  his  life  worthy  higher 
life.  Then  life  free  in  will  fulfills  the  higher  pur- 
pose of  its  Maker  willing  for  its  w^orth  itself. 

Will  Higher,  man's  INIaker,  who  for  life  pur- 
poses forever,  wills  that  life  be  man  on  earth.  Life 
then  fulfills  as  man  His  purpose.     When  for  life 


82  Man,  The  Life  Free 

worthy  man  wills  firmly,  life  fulfills  the  purpose  of 
its  Maker.  Then  this  man  now  life  on  earth,  this 
man  who  makes  when  he  wishes  his  life  worthy,  by 
making  his  life  worthy  fulfills  God's  purpose  for 
life  on  earth.  Think  well,  man  of  life  immortal, 
think  well. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds  who  thus  wishes. 
Man,  who  is  life,  wills  how  life  live  when  this  man 
dies.  Would  this  man  wish  earth  life  then?  That 
life  who  this  time  on  earth  finds  firm  will  for  life 
worthy  wins  higher  life.  Would  this  man  prefer 
earth  life  again  ?  Then  will  firmly,  man  who  would 
win  freedom.  Each  life  finally  wins  freedom,  but 
the  worth  for  freedom  man  must  find  himself. 
Think  then,  man  who  fives  earth  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  of  man  that  it  find 
will  for  life  worthy ;  but  life  free  finds  of  free  choice 
that  will.  When  life  wins  this  life  will  free  has 
made  it  worthy.  Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  then 
when  this  man  thus  wishes. 

What  has  life  to  fulfill  while  it  is  man?  The 
purpose  of  its  Maker.  What  has  life  with  which 
to  work  to  fulfill  that  purpose?  Purpose  its  own, 
free  purpose.  Willed  life  worthy,  helped  by  Him 
who  made  it  free,  self  of  man,  life  immortal,  wins 
the  purposed  worth  by  wise  use  of  its  own  free 
purpose.  When  by  life  will  and  purpose  are  well 
used,  life  wins  freedom.    This  man  uses  them  well 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  83 

if  thus  he  wishes.  This  man  then  wins  freedom  for 
his  hfe  immortal  if  thus  he  wishes.  Think,  man  of 
free  purpose,  think  well. 

Man,  life  personal,  wills  for  life  worthy  when 
thus  he  wishes.  For  life  who  wins  that  worth  which 
Higher  Will  purposes  He  wills  wider,  fuller  life. 
Well  has  man  willed  whose  life  wins  that  wider 
life,  well  has  he  purposed.  When  life  wins  free- 
dom man  has  won  it.  That  life  who  firmly  pur- 
poses for  life  worthy  on  earth  wins  the  higher  life. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  while  it  wills  in 
man.  That  life  who  wills  in  this  man  finally  wills 
well.  But  perhaps  life  wills  unworthily  this  time. 
Will  life  who  wills  for  itself  unworthily  finally  find 
wider  life?  Yes,  thus  God  wills,  but  for  the  life 
who  wills  unworthily  He  wills  further  life  as  man. 
Then  life  wills  whe7i  it  find  freedom,  though  God 
purposes  that  it  find  freedom.  That  firm  free  will 
which  wins  for  life  its  freedom  this  man  finds  if 
he  thus  wishes.  Then  will  firmly  for  life  worthy, 
man  who  wishes  higher  life ;  will  firmly  this  time  of 
life  on  earth.  Thus  this  man  may  free  from  life 
weak,  unworthy,  feeble  of  purpose,  his  life  im- 
mortal. 

Will  firmly  for  life  worthy  then,  man  who  is  life 
immortal.  Man  wins  the  freed  life  for  his  immortal 
self  who  wills  that  his  man's  life  win  worth.  Keep 
firm  then,  man  who  wishes  wider  life,  keep  firm. 


84.  Mem,  The  Life  Free 

INIaii  wins  this  life  who  firmly  keeps  his  man's  life 
worthy.  Have  I  helped  you,  man  who  wills  for 
life?  Help  this  word  for  help  with  Thy  blessing, 
we  pray  Thee,  O  God. 

That  life  win  while  it  works  man's  work  firm 
purpose  God  wills.  That  the  work  of  life  on  earth 
teach  that  firm  purpose  finally  He  purposes.  Why 
has  life  free  purpose,  why  has  life  free  will?  For 
help  God  makes  life  free,  for  helj)  will  and  purpose 
are  made  free.  What  has  life  from  its  Maker  for 
help  then?  Will  that  it  uses  for  life  worthy  when 
it  thus  wishes,  purpose  that  makes  life  worthy 
when  life  thus  wishes.  Free  life  is  while  it  wills 
and  purposes,  but  the  free  will  wisely  used,  the 
free  purpose  wisely  used,  win  that  worth  which 
frees  from  earth.  When  man  wisely  uses  his  free 
will  and  purpose  his  life  wins  freedom  and  higher 
life.  Then  will  firmly,  who  would  find  the  freed 
life  this  time,  purpose  firmly.  Then  this  time  life 
wins  freedom.     Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  that  life  be  man  while 
it  wins  the  worth  for  higher  life,  purposes  for  life 
the  work  of  man  that  life  find  througli  that  work 
firm  purpose.  What  food  for  thouglit  this  gives 
to  men!  High  life  becomes  when  it  has  found  free- 
dom. For  what  life  is  freedom  purj^osed?  For 
the  personal  life  of  man.  What  purpose  wins  the 
fuller  life?     Man's  own  free  purpose.     What  life 


Will  for  Life  Worthy  85 

finds  fuller  lil'e^  JNlaii's  life  of  personal  self.  Then 
this  man,  this  life  who  is  man  to-day,  wins  fuller 
l^ersonal  life  when  this  man,  freely  willing,  wins 
worth  himself.    Heed  the  word,  man  of  earth. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  works  the  work  of  earth.  What  purposes 
He  for  life  while  it  works  the  work  of  earth?  Firm 
purpose  won  through  that  work  well  finished. 
Firm  purpose  that  helps  life  forever  may  be  won 
by  the  life  who  works  in  this  man.  Will  that  firm 
purpose  be  won?  This  man  wills  for  himself 
whether  it  be  won.  Think  then,  who  would  find 
higher  life,  think  well. 

Higher  Will  of  life's  Maker  follows  life  while 
it  wills  for  itself.  Will  for  life  worthy  is  purposed 
by  Higher  Will,  but  He  makes  life  free  to  find 
that  will  when  it  thus  wishes.  Firm  purpose  is  by 
Higher  Will  purposed  for  life,  but  His  will  makes 
life  free  to  find  firm  purpose  when  thus  it  wishes. 
Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds  as  life  for  whom 
that  will  is  purposed.  Then  the  man  who  thus 
wishes  fulfills  God's  purpose,  and  thus  wins  higher 
life,  free  from  weak  will,  full  with  firm  purpose, 
happy  while  it  is  to  will  for  life  worthy.  Man 
who  purposes  to-day,  think. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  while  it  wills  as 
man  on  earth.  That  free  will  which  life  has  from 
its   Maker  wins  that  worth  which   He  purposes. 


86  Man,  The  Life  Free 

Will  free,  life's  power,  made  life's  power  by  God, 
wins  life's  worth  for  time  and  eternity.  That  life 
who  this  time  wills  well  thus  wins  fuller  life.  Think 
well,  O  man,  think  well. 


VI 

MAN  WILLS  FOR  WIDER  LIFE  WHEN 
HE  WILLS  HIS  LIFE  WORTHY 


MAN   WILLS  FOR  WIDER  LIFE  WHEN   HE   WILLS   HIS 
LIFE  WORTHY 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  free  man  uses  to  make  his  life 
worthy.  Man  free  wills  for  life 
wider  when  by  his  wise  free  will  he 
wins  the  worth  which  life  is  by  God 
purposed  to  find  on  earth.  What  for  life  purposes 
Higher  Will?  Worth  won  by  free  will.  Then 
worth  won  by  man's  free  will  fulfills  God's  purpose. 
What  for  life  purposes  He  who  made  it?  Man's 
life  till  it  finds  by  free  will  worth  for  wider  life. 
What  for  life  purposes  its  Maker?  Wide  life  full 
of  firm  purpose,  high  life  full  of  worth,  full  life 
worthy  His  presence  finally.  Man  begins  life's 
wise  use  of  free  will.  Then  this  life  by  its  free  will 
wins  finally  that  higher  life  purposed  from  the 
willing  of  life.  That  life  high  which  He  who  wills 
for  life  forever  purposes  is  won  by  the  free  will  used 
to-day  by  this  man.  Why  wait  then  to  make  your 
life  worthy,  man  of  earth,  why  wait? 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  life  while  it  is,  made 
Ijf^  man  for  earth  that  life  immortal  there  learn 


90  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

firm  purpose  for  life  worthy.  His  will  life  ful- 
fills, for  His  will  is  the  will  of  Omnipotent  God. 
Will  for  life  worthy  is  purposed  then.  That  life 
win  the  worth  which  frees  from  earth  Will  Higher 
purposes,  but  for  life  He  wills  free  purpose  its 
own.  Free  life,  purposing  as  it  wishes,  finally 
fulfills  His  will.  Then  the  life  who  is  man  to-day 
finally  will  fulfill  His  purpose,  for  His  purpose 
life  must  fulfill.  But  this  life  is  free,  and  the  man 
who  wills  for  this  life  is  free.  Then  free  life  finally 
wills  as  God  purposes.  How  may  that  be?  The 
life  free  is  taught  firm  purpose  for  life  worthy. 
Taught  life  fulfills  the  purpose  that  it  win  life 
worthy,  taught  through  man's  life  of  work,  man's 
life  weak  of  purpose  perhaps,  man's  life  weak  of 
will,  and  man's  life  firm.  What  teaches  life  then? 
The  life  of  man  on  earth.  What  is  life  taught  by 
that  life  of  man?  Wise  use  of  free  purpose,  firm 
use  of  free  purpose.  Wise  life  becomes,  taught  by 
the  life  of  man.  Life  taught  fulfills  as  God  pur- 
poses His  will.  Life  firm  wins  freedom,  life  worthy 
wins  freedom.  Think  what  I  tell,  man  who  is  free. 
Will  Higher  purposes  for  your  life  worth  for  life 
higher,  but  by  your  own  free  purpose  must  life 
win  the  worth  for  freedom.  Think  wisely,  O  man. 
Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
purposes  that  by  will  free  life  win  the  worth  which 
makes  it  worthy  wider  life.    Man,  who  wills  as  life, 


Man  Wills  for  Wider  Life  91 

^\\\o  wills  of  free  Avill,  makes  the  life  while  it  is  on 
earth  worthy  life  higher.  For  that  which  Higher 
Will  purposes,  the  life  wider,  man  purposes  by 
free  purpose.  Well  has  life  purposed  when  it  has 
won  freedom;  well  has  life  willed  when  it  has  won 
higher  life.  The  life  who  purposes  of  free  pur- 
pose wins  the  higher  life  purposed  by  God  willing 
its  worth  itself.  What  for  life  wills  the  man  who 
is  life  now?  Has  that  life  won  the  worth  which 
frees?  We  tell  that  life  finds  its  worth  itself, 
though  that  worth  is  by  Higher  Will  purposed. 
When  will  this  life  find  the  purposed  worth?  This 
time,  if  man  thus  wills.  That  word  helps  the  man 
who  heeds  it.  Think,  man  who  purposes  for  life, 
think  well. 

Man,  the  worker  on  earth,  wills  for  his  worth 
with  the  will  of  life  itself.  When  man  wills  well 
life  itself  wills  well.  Then  life  who  is  man  wills 
that  which  man  wills.  Hope  then,  man  who  is  life, 
hope  for  wider  life.  When  you  will  that  life  be 
worthy  life  itself  wins  worth.  You  will  that  worth 
which  brings  for  life  freedom  using  life's  free  will. 
I  who  tell  you  this  was  man.  I  willed  well,  for 
the  life  was  freed.  You  may  will  well.  You  then, 
life  immortal,  win  freedom.  Think,  man  who  is  life, 
think  well. 

Man,  life  of  personal  self,  wills  for  life  wider 
than  he  may  understand.     While  he  wills  his  life 


92  3Iajh  The  Life  Free 

prepares  for  that  life  wider.  This  Hfe  for  wliich 
hfe  prepares  on  earth  prepares  for  yet  higher  life 
by  the  free  will  whieh  it  uses  while  it  is  man.  Man, 
the  free  life,  wills  for  that  worth  which  God  pur- 
poses. Then  man  wills  that  life  find  worth  for 
freedom.  When  life  wills  well,  winning  the  worth 
whieh  God  wills  for  life  on  earth,  His  purpose  who 
wills  for  life  frees  that  life.  Then  man  who  wills 
well  wins  for  his  life  freedom  and  wider,  fuller  life. 
Think,  man  of  earth,  think  well. 

Wilberforce. 

Will  Higher  purposes  for  life  that  by  purpose 
its  own  it  find  the  worth  for  higher  life.  When  life 
finds  that  purpose  firm  which  it  must  find  because 
Will  Higher  thus  wills,  He  frees  that  life  from 
earth.  While  life  works  man's  work  it  finds  firm 
purpose  if  thus  it  chooses.  The  life  free  wins  by 
God's  purpose  the  worth  for  higher  life ;  when  that 
worth  is  found  life  chooses  for  itself.  Would  the 
man  who  is  life  to-day  win  higher  life?  Purpose 
firmly  he  must  each  day  he  lives. 

^lan  wills  the  worth  which  life  finds  on  earth. 
Man  wins  that  worth  by  his  free  will.  God  pur- 
poses that  life  find  that  worth,  but  makes  life  free. 
Life  free  wins  on  earth  the  life  wider,  and  by  free 
will  its  own  wins  that  worth  which  prepares  life 
for   life   wider.      Wheii   life   finds   that   worth   it 


3Ian  Wills  for  Wider  Life  93 

chooses  by  its  own  free  choice.  Man,  who  is  the 
life  on  earth,  wills  for  life  wider,  then,  when  his  free 
will  makes  his  life  worthy.  Have  the  words  helped 
one  man  to  will  for  life  worthy?  Then  life  freed 
thanks  God. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  life  while  it  is,  wills 
for  life  while  it  wills  as  man.  That  which  He  wills 
life  fulfills.  Life  whose  will  He  makes  free  wins 
finally  the  worth  which  He  purposes.  What  has 
life  from  its  Maker?  Powers  free.  Life  wills  of 
free  will,  life  purposes  of  free  purpose.  Yet  life 
which  has  for  must  to  fulfill  God's  purpose  ful- 
fills that  purpose  by  its  own  free  will  and  purpose. 
What  for  life  purposes  God?  High  life,  worthy 
life,  worthy  His  presence  finally.  His  purpose 
life  fulfills.  Life  of  man,  personal  self,  wins  this 
worth  finally.  But  life,  to  win  that  high  life  which 
God  purposes,  must  win  its  worth  by  free  will. 
Man  who  is  life,  think.  Your  life  finds  worth  when 
you  the  man  choose.  Your  worth  wins  life's  first 
higher  life.  Then,  firm  of  purpose,  life  works  and 
wills  for  that  worth  which  makes  it  worthy  God's 
presence.  Will  free  wins  life's  worth  while  it  is. 
Remember  that,  man  who  would  win  liigher  life. 

Miltiades. 

Man,  the  free  personal  life,  wills  for  his  life 
worthy  when  he  thus  wishes.     Then  man  fulfills 


94  Man,  The  Life  Free 

God's  purpose  for  his  life  when  he  thus  wishes. 
For  life  purpose  and  will  are  by  God  made  free, 
and  free  life  finally  purposes  for  life  worthy  wish- 
ing thus  to  purpose.  Man  while  he  works  life's 
work  on  earth  finds  that  which  God  purposes  for 
life,  firm  purpose  for  life  worthy.  What  helps 
man  in  his  work?  Firm  purpose.  What  wins  life 
worthy?  Firm  purpose.  When  life  wins  firm 
purpose  for  both  work  and  life  worthy  life  fulfills 
God's  purpose.  Then  think,  who  would  win  higher 
life.  You  may  wun  it  this  time.  Firm  purpose 
well  used  wins  life  higher. 

That  life  who  finds  firm  purpose  on  earth  wins 
life  higher;  when  life  finds  that  firm  purpose  man 
wills;  this  man  finds  that  firm  purpose  if  thus  he 
wishes ;  then  this  life  wins  freedom  if  this  man  finds 
firm  free  purpose.  What  helps  man  to  worth? 
Firm  purpose  used  well  this  day,  to-morrow,  each 
day  he  lives.  Man  who  would  win  for  life  wider, 
fuller  life,  think.  Why  wait  to  find  firm  purpose, 
why  wait? 

Has  will  helped  you,  the  life,  while  the  fife  is  this 
man?  Think  what  the  word  from  freed  life  tells. 
Well  has  life  purposed  who  has  won  freedom. 
Has  your  life  willed  well,  O  man?  You,  the  life, 
find  purpose  free  your  help  if  you,  the  man,  will 
that  it  help.  Think  then,  man  who  wills  for  life, 
think. 


VII 
FREE  WILL  USED  WELL  HELPS  LIFE 


FREE  AYII.L  USED   WELL    HELPS  LIFE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  for  life  worthy  man  finds  using 
free  will.  Man  who  finds  firm  will 
for  life  worthy  uses  will  well.  Weak 
purpose  lets  life  wait  for  freedom. 
But  firm  purpose  life  is  willed,  and  by  will  firm  used 
always  life  wins  firm  purpose.  Firm  purpose  life 
finds  when  the  man  chooses.  Will  free,  will  that 
God  makes  life's  free  power,  wins  for  life  the  worth 
which  life  by  His  purpose  finds  finally.  When 
life  purposes  well  God  wills  for  it  wider  life.  Then 
the  man  who  purposes  firmly  for  life  worthy,  using 
free  purpose  well,  wins  by  that  purpose  this  wider 
life.  Heed  the  word,  man  of  weak  purpose.  When 
you  find  firm  purpose  life  finds  it;  when  you  pur- 
pose weakly  you  fail  to  win  for  life  its  freedom. 
Then  firmly  purpose  for  life  worthy,  man  who  has 
life  to  free. 

Man,  who  wills  as  he  wishes,  has  for  his  work 
that  work  which  God  makes  teaching  for  life  im- 
mortal.    Man,  then,  works  for  life  immortal  the 

97 


98  Man,  The  Life  Free 

man's  work,  learning  througli  that  work,  if  he 
wishes,  that  which  helps  life  immortal.  When  life 
of  man  finds  firm  purpose  man  wins  it.  Man  who 
works  life's  work  wins  for  life  the  purpose  which 
frees  life  from  man.  Well  has  man  worked,  well 
has  he  purposed  then,  when  life  immortal  wins 
freedom.  Well  must  this  man  will  and  purpose 
if  he  would  free  from  earth  his  life.  Think,  man 
who  is  free,  think. 

Help  from  Him  who  purposes  for  life  life  willed 
by  Him  finds  when  with  prayer  it  asks  that  help. 
Man  who  wills  for  life  worthy  finds  that  help,  but 
life,  to  receive  that  help,  must  firmly  purpose  to 
keep  itself  worthy.  Then  firm  purpose  for  life 
worthy  wins  His  help  who  gives  free  will.  The 
man  who  wills  for  life  worthy  wills  that  life  im- 
mortal win  freed  life ;  the  man  who  wills  weakly  or 
wickedly  holds  fife  immortal  to  earth.  This  life 
wills  for  life  worthy  firmly,  taught  by  life  in  man. 
We  who  live  freed  life  thank  Him  who  purposed 
for  us  this  wider  life  of  freedom.  That  purpose 
by  which  this  life  is  won  is  life's  purpose  used  by 
man.  Then  man  himself  wins  for  life  immortal 
this  wider,  fuller  life.  Will  for  life  worthy  then, 
man  who  would  free  life  immortal,  will  firmly,  pray- 
ing for  His  help  who  made  life  free. 


Free  Will  Used  Well  Helps  Life         99 

Wilherforce. 

Free  will  man  has,  being  willed  that  power  by 
his  Maker.  Then  by  that  power  life  of  man  ful- 
fills the  purpose  of  its  Maker.  When  free  will 
well  and  firmly  used  wins  that  worth  which  life's 
Maker  purposes,  life  fulfills,  as  He  wills,  His  pur- 
pose. When  free  will  life  weakly  uses,  life  has  for 
help  the  penalty  of  man's  life  again.  Penalty  that 
is  then?  Would  this  man  who  works  to-day  think 
that  man's  work  once  more  is  not  penalty?  Think, 
who  read.  Work  of  man  teaches  life  when  man 
thus  wishes ;  man  who  weakly  works  finds  but  weak 
purpose;  his  life  is  for  penalty  given  man's  life 
again.  Why  life  wills  for  itself  its  worth  we  have 
made  you  understand,  O  men.  Why  life  must 
firmly  purpose  we  wish  to  make  you  understand. 
Weak  will  holds  life  to  earth,  firm  will  wins  free- 
dom. Man  who  has  free  will,  think.  For  life  man 
wills,  for  life  he  purposes.  When  will  firmly  used 
wins  freedom  man  has  fulfilled  the  purpose  of  life's 
Maker. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Wilier,  who  purposes  for  life 
while  He  permits  it  to  be,  wills  for  life  free  pur- 
pose its  own.  Life  willed  free  purpose  wills  and 
purposes  itself  its  worth;  but  life  purposed  worth 
by  its  Maker  finds  that  purposed  worth  surely. 
Will  free  life  has;  then  man  who  wills  as  life  wills 


100  Man,  The  Life  Free 

of  free  will;  his  worth  or  iinworthiness  he  Avills  for 
himself.      His   will,   being   life's   will,   makes   life 
worthy  higher  life.     He  wills  that  life  find  higher 
life  when  by  his  free  will  he  makes  his  life  worthy. 
Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  while  life  is 
man  for  that  life.     His  will  that  life  fulfills.    But 
when  man  wishes  to  will  weakly  is  that  fulfilling 
the  will  of  his  Maker?    No.    Yet  life  willed  free 
will  may  thus  avoid  fulfilling  God's  purpose.    May 
a  life  always  work  or  will  weakly?    No.     Life  is 
taught  finally ;  will  is  well  used  finally ;  no  life  may 
for  always  avoid  fulfilling  the  purpose  of  its  Wilier, 
God.     Man  wills  that  life  be  weak  if  he  wills 
weakly,  and  life  who  is  weak  finds  but  man's  life 
again.    Has  man  then  penalty?    Perhaps  not,  but 
life  has  penalty  for  weakness  while  it  is  man.    Free 
life  is,  free  God  makes  life.     Then  free  life  finally 
wins  the  worth  which  God  purposes.     That  free 
will  with  which  He  who  made  life  endows  it  finally 
fulfills  His  purpose.     No  life  fails.     While  life 
wishes  it  may  be  weak;  when  life  is  taught  by  life 
weak  it  learns  to  firmh^  purpose.    Life  weak  then 
is  teaching?     Yes,  for  life  weak  learns   through 
penalty  for  weakness.    Man  who  wills  freely  is  life 
who  finds  penalty  for  man's  weakness.     Have  we 
helped  yovi,  O  men,  to  find  firm  will?     We  pray 
for  God's  blessing  on  the  work  He  permits  us,  the 
work  for  help  of  men. 


Free  Will  Used  Well  Helps  Life       101 

Miltiades. 

Free  will  well  and  firmly  used  helps  life  for 
which  life  worthy  is  by  Him  who  made  it  purposed. 
When  life,  freely  willing,  wins  the  worth  that  life's 
Maker  purposes,  life  wins  wider  life;  when  life 
weakly  wills,  purposing  only  for  earth,  that  wins 
but  man's  life  again.  Then  firm  purpose,  firm  for 
life  worthy,  wins  by  God's  purpose  the  higher  life 
of  freedom,  but  weak  purpose  wins  for  life  man's 
life  again.  Think,  who  have  life  to  free,  think 
well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  who  wills  for  life 
free  will,  purposes  that  life  free  fulfill  His  will. 
That  purpose  life  will  fulfill,  though  this  man  wills 
weakly.  But  that  work  which  helps  life  life  works 
this  time.  When  that  work  helps  life,  however, 
man  wills.  Though  life  be  willed  worth,  God  pur- 
poses that  it  win  that  worth  by  free  will.  Happy 
life  is  when  freed.  Then  this  man  who  wills  life 
worthy  if  he  thus  wishes  may  thus  win  for  life  im- 
mortal life  happy  forever.  Think,  life  who  would 
win  freedom,  think,  man  who  is  life  now,  think 
well. 


VIII 
PURPOSE  OF  LIFE  IN  MAN 


PURPOSE    OF   LIFE    IN   MAN 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  who  was  when  life 
made  by  Him  was  not,  formed  His 
purpose  for  life  when  that  life  He 
willed  into  being.  His  purpose 
governs  life  while  it  is.  Man,  the  life  on  earth,  pur- 
poses as  He  purposes  finally,  though,  being  made 
free,  he  purposes  that  which  he  wishes.  Man,  the 
life  of  free  purpose,  wins  by  his  free  purpose  the 
worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  for  him. 
Though  man  is  free,  Will  Higher  purposes  that  of 
free  will  he  make  his  life  worthy.  Has  this  man 
wdlled  for  life  worthy?  God  wills  for  his  life  free- 
dom ;  man  wills  for  himself  the  worth  for  freedom. 
How  would  the  man  who  wishes  freedom  will  then? 
Think,  man  of  free  purpose.  What  use  do  you  the 
man  make  of  purpose? 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
w^orth  won  by  free  purpose  its  own.  That  worth 
which  He  purposes  for  life  while  it  is  man  man 
purposes  by  his  free  purpose.     That  worth  which 


106  Man,  The  Life  Free 

He  purposes  for  life  beyond  earth,  that  worth 
which  finally  fits  life  for  His  presence,  life  wins  by 
its  free  purpose.  That  worth  which  makes  life 
ready  for  its  first  wider  life  man  wins  by  his  free 
purpose.  Wider  life  wins  wider  worth  to  eternity 
by  the  same  free  purpose  that  life  uses  in  man. 
Then  man  who  uses  firm  purpose  fits  life  for  its 
first  wider  life.  Think,  man  who  purposes  for  life, 
think  well. 

Wilherforce. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  when  for  that  will 
it  purposes  firmly.  Man  who  purposes  for  life 
on  earth  finds  firm  purpose  when  he  thus  wishes. 
Then  life  finds  firm  purpose  for  life  worthy  when 
the  man  thus  wishes.  Think  then,  who  would  free 
your  life.  Your  purpose  wins  for  life  worth  that 
frees  when  you  yourself  thus  wish.     Think  well. 

Purpose  Higher  rules  life  whom  He  made.  His 
purpose  rules  life  both  while  it  works  in  man  and 
when  it  finds  higher  life.  What  purposes  He  for 
life  on  earth?  Worth  won  by  life's  free  purpose, 
worth  won  by  life  free.  His  purpose  life  fulfills 
using  the  free  powers  He  gives.  Man  wills  that 
worth  which  wins  freedom  then,  for  he  is  life  for 
earth.  His  free  purpose  makes  life  worthy  wider 
life.  Think,  man  who  is  free.  Why  wait  to  use 
your  purpose  well?    This  time  that  life  wins  free- 


Purpose  of  Life  in  Man  107 

dom  if  you  will  well.  Think,  who  would  find  higher 
life.  You  win  it  by  your  free  purpose  if  thus  you 
wish. 

Purpose  Higher  follows  life  while  it  purposes 
for  itself.  Free  life  is  made.  Free  to  will  worth 
or  weakness,  free  while  it  lasts  life  is.  This  life 
who  lives  the  life  of  man  wins,  if  it  thus  wishes,  the 
wider  fuller  life.  Full  of  help  for  men  this  word. 
Their  thought  needs  this  help  from  life  freed. 
Think  then,  man  of  free  purpose.  Your  life  finds 
this  life  if  this  man  finds  worth  for  this  life.  Now 
man  may  will  the  worth  that  frees. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  Him  who  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is,  wills  for  life  that  He  made  man  life 
wider;  then  life  while  it  wills  on  earth  becomes 
worthy  wider  life.  Will  Higher  made  life  free; 
then  life  wins  its  worth  of  free  will.  God  wills  for 
life  that,  finding  worth  of  free  will,  it  become 
worthy  life  wider.  Have  we  helped  the  man  who 
reads?  He  himself,  this  man  who  is  life  to-day, 
finds  the  life  wider  when  by  his  own  free  will  he 
makes  life  worthy.  Then  this  man  may  if  thus  he 
wishes  win  wider  life  for  his  immortal  self. 

What  has  purpose  won  to-day,  man  who  has  life 
to  free?  Was  purpose  the  help  of  life  to-day?  For 
life  man  purposes  well  who  helps  life  each  day. 
Why  then  wait  to  find  firm  purpose,  life  who  would 
be  freed?    You  who  know  from  freed  life  the  word 


108  Man,  The  Life  Free 

you  need,  think.  The  will  of  man,  the  purpose  of 
man,  firmly  and  wisely  used  win  freedom  from 
earth  for  life  immortal.  Then  purpose  firmly  to- 
daj^,  to-morrow,  each  day,  man  who  has  life  to 
free. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  that  by  man's 
will  life  win  the  freedom  that  He  purposes.  Then 
the  life  who  is  man  now  has  His  purpose  to  fulfill. 
Yet  He  makes  life  free.  How  then  must  life  win 
freedom?  By  wise  use  of  its  own  free  will.  God's 
purpose  life  fulfills  while  it  is.  Man,  the  life  who 
has  free  will,  uses  his  free  will  well  or  weakly  as 
he  wishes,  but  life  purposed  freedom  will  finally 
win  it.  What  help  the  man  who  is  life  to-day  finds 
from  this  thought  he  himself  chooses.  But  the 
word  means  much.  Will  free  wickedly  used  means 
further  work  on  earth;  will  free  firmly  and  wisely 
used  brings  worth  for  life  higher.  Think  then, 
who  work.    Think  well,  who  live  man's  life  to-day. 

Will  Higher,  who  governs  life  whom  He  made, 
wills  for  life  worth  for  life  wider  won  by  itself. 
What  life  wins  that  worth?  The  life  who  firmly 
purposes  that  life  be  worthy.  That  life  works 
well,  that  life  finishes  the  work  of  man  well,  that 
life  finds  will  firm  a  help,  that  life  wins  freedom. 
Purposed  life  higher,  willed  man's  life  of  work  and 
experience  as  teaching,  life  personal  wins  by  free 
will  that  life  wider  which  God  purposes.    Well  to 


Purpose  of  Life  in  Man  109 

think  what  this  means  to  you,  O  man.    What  life 
wins  freedom?    This  hfe  if  thus  it  chooses. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  that  while  life 
is  man  on  earth  it  win  worth  for  higher  life.  Work 
that  life  has,  man's  work  that  is,  teaches  life  firm 
purpose.  Work  then  helps  life  of  man.  Work  has 
helped  life  when  it  has  found  higher  life.  While  life 
works  as  man,  free  to  work  well  or  ill  always,  it 
wins,  by  the  teaching  God  purposes,  firm  purpose 
which  helps  life  forever.  Wise  free  purpose  life 
finds  taught  by  the  life  on  earth ;  wise  free  purpose 
wins  life's  worth  for  the  higher  life  freed  from  earth ; 
wise,  firm  free  purpose  wins  life's  worth  forever. 
Work  then  firmly,  man  who  is  life,  for  thus  life  wins 
help  that  lasts  forever.  Think  then  well,  who  work 
to-day,  that  life  find  firm  purpose. 

Miltiades. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man,  the  life,  finds  by  the 
purpose  of  his  Maker.  Man,  the  worker  on  earth, 
has  for  teaching  the  work  which  by  God's  purpose 
life  must  work  on  earth.  Man,  who  wills  for  that 
work  well  or  ill,  is  the  life  who  finds  finally  the 
worth  of  life  which  God  purposes.  Man  then,  be- 
ing life,  and  being  life  who  is  by  God  pin-posed 
worth,  and  also  being  life  free,  wins  that  purposed 
worth  using  free  will.  God  purposes;  that  which 
He  made  fulfills  His  purpose.     Man,  the  willed 


110  Man,  The  Life  Free 

life,  finds  for  that  life  the  firm  purpose  which  by 
God's  purpose  life  must  find. 

Work  that  teaches  life  man  has  for  his  work. 
Each  life  is  by  man's  work  taught  firm  purpose 
finally,  but  life  works  well  when  thus  it  wishes. 
Then  life  is  taught  firm  purpose  when  thus  it 
wishes.  Help  work  is  purposed  to  be;  help  it  is 
when  by  it  life  wins  firm  purpose.  The  life  on 
earth  is  man.  The  life  wins  firm  purpose  then  by 
man's  free  choice.  When  man  works  well,  firmly 
purposing,  when  man  keeps  life  worthy,  firmly  pur- 
posing thus,  man  finds  firm  purpose  which  helps 
life  forever.  Think,  man  who  purposes  for  life, 
think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  purposes  for 
life  worth  for  higher  life,  wills  how  life  attain  its 
worth.  His  purpose  for  life  life  fulfills  working 
for  worth  first  as  man  on  earth,  there  finding  (for 
thus  God  wills),  the  firm  purpose  by  which  it 
makes  itself  worthy  wider  life.  That  firm  purpose 
life  is  taught  by  the  work  of  man.  Yet  firm  pur- 
pose that  work  teaches  life  may  use  unworthily. 
He  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is  wills  that  life 
finally  win  wider  life.  His  will  life  finally  fulfills. 
Life  willed  worth  finds  worth.  Though  it  will 
for  life  unworthy  this  time  on  earth,  life  finally 
finds  the  purposed  life  wider  using  for  its  worth 
the  free  purpose  which  He  who  made  it  free  gives. 


Purpose  of  Life  in  Man  111 

Then  the  will  of  life  free,  the  purpose  of  life  free, 
finally  win  that  worth  which  God  purposes.  But 
when  life  wins  that  worth  it  chooses  itself.  When 
the  life  who  is  man  to-day  wishes  life  wider  it  must 
firmly  will  for  life  worthy.  Heed  the  word,  man 
who  purposes  for  life.  Your  purpose  must  make 
your  life  worthy.  Your  firm  purpose  well  and 
wisely  used  will  free  your  life  immortal  from  earth. 
Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
wider  life  won  by  the  life  while  it  wills  as  man. 
That  life  wider  is  won  by  free  will  and  purpose, 
for  Will  Higher  made  life  free.  But  that  worth, 
being  purposed  for  life  by  Will  Higher,  life  must 
find.  Then  life  who  is  free  finds  that  life  wider 
using  free  will  and  purpose.  What  would  life 
working  for  worth  be  were  it  not  free?  Worth 
nothing,  for  life  to  win  worth  must  be  free.  Life 
willed  freedom  by  Higher  Will  wins  the  worth 
for  that  purposed  freedom  using  its  own  free  will, 
for  thus  Higher  Will  purposes.  Then  when  life 
wills  for  unworthiness  it  fulfills  not  God's  purpose. 
True,  but  life  finds  worth  nevertheless  finally.  The 
will  given  life,  free  will,  is  by  work  of  man  taught. 
Wise  life  becomes,  taught  by  life  of  man.  Wise 
life,  taught  wisdom  by  the  work  which  Higher 
Will  purposes  for  teaching,  wins  freedom.  Wise 
life,  free  to  will  as  it  wishes,  wills,  choosing  thus  to 


112  Man,  The  Life  Free 

will,  for  life  worthy.  His  purpose  who  made  life 
free  life  free  fulfills.  Wise  life,  taught  by  Higher 
Will,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Higher  Will. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
purposes  for  life  while  it  is  man  that,  using  free 
purpose,  it  win  the  worth  for  higher  life.  Then  the 
man  who  is  life  to-day  must  firmly  purpose  if  he 
would  win  the  higher  life.  What  has  purpose  won 
for  this  life  ?  What  use  has  this  man  made  of  God's 
gift  of  free  purpose?  What  man  wins  life  wider 
for  personal  self?  This  man  who  is  life  to-day,  if 
thus  he  chooses.  Then  firmly  purpose  while  you 
are  working  this  time,  man  of  free  purpose.  Then 
life  wins  higher  life.  Think,  man  of  earth,  think 
well. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds  who  thus  wishes. 
Will  for  life  worthy  won  by  man  wins  firm  pur- 
pose for  life  immortal.  Think  what  we  tell.  Man 
wins  if  thus  he  wishes,  this  time  of  life  on  earth, 
the  firm  purpose  which  life  holds  for  always.  Man 
who  is  weak,  think.  What  has  purpose  been  for 
you  to-day?  Has  it  helped  life?  We  tell  for  help 
the  word  you  read;  think  upon  it  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  that 
while  it  is  man  it  find  the  worth  by  which  it  wins 
freedom.  Why  let  life  wait  to  find  that  firm  pur- 
pose which  makes  life  worthy,  why  weakly  purpose, 
man  of  earth?    Your  firm  purpose  wins  freedom; 


Purpose  of  Life  in  Man  113 

you  win  firm  purpose  when  thus  you  wish.  Then 
this  time  of  life  on  earth  win  that  firm  purpose,  and 
this  time  life  wins  wider,  fuller  life.  Think,  man 
who  is  life,  think. 

We  who  live  freed  life  win  by  free  will  the  worth 
which  we  find.  That  worth  Will  Higher  purposes 
that  we  find  thus.  We  find,  then,  purposed  worth 
as  man  finds  it,  wisely  and  firmly  using  free  will. 
That  will  which  wins  for  life  freed  its  wider  life 
is  the  free  will  given  to  life  of  man.  Then  life 
freed  wills  for  its  wider  life  by  the  will  used  while 
it  lived  on  earth.  Think  what  we  tell.  You  who 
will  to-day  for  life  higher,  using  free  will  your  own, 
will,  when  life  has  won  freedom,  use  the  will  that 
you  now  use.    Think  well,  O  man,  think  wisely. 


IX 

WILL  FREE  WINS  FOR  LIFE 
FREEDOM 


WILL   FKEE   WINS   FOR   LIFE   FREEDOM 

Dr,  Coulter. 

MAN  wills  for  life  while  life  is  on  earth ; 
man  purposes  that  life  win  freedom 
when  he  purposes  that  his  man's  life 
win  worth ;  man  wills  for  life  whom  God 
made  immortal;  man  purposes  for  life  for  whom 
God  wills  wider,  fuller  life;  man  wills,  using  free 
will,  the  worth  which  permits  freedom.  Then  this 
man  wills  whether  life  win  freedom  this  time  or 
no.  Think,  man  who  is  life  immortal,  think  well. 
Man  who  wills  that  his  man's  life  be  worthy  wills 
that  life  immortal  be  worthy.  Man  who  wills  that 
his  life  be  worthy  wills  that  his  life  win  higher  life. 
Will  for  life  worthy  then,  man  who  is  life  im- 
mortal. Why  wait  for  the  will  for  life  worthy  that 
you  may  find  to-day?  Why  wait  to  find  the  worth 
that  wins  freedom?  Think,  who  will  for  life.  You 
will  this  day  for  life.  What  will  have  you,  will  to 
win  higher  life,  or  to  keep  life  on  earth?  Think 
well,  O  man. 

Man,  who  is  life  immortal,  who  wills  on  earth 

117 


118  Man,  The  Life  Free 

for  life  immortal,  wills  whether  life  immortal  win 
wider  life  or  life  on  earth  again.  INIan,  who  wills 
of  free  will,  wills  for  that  worth  which  brings  to 
life  immortal  freedom  from  earth  or  life  on  earth 
again.  Then  this  man  who  is  to-day  life  inmiortal 
wills  whether  his  life  find  wider  life  or  work  of 
man  again.  Think  what  I  tell,  man  who  wills. 
Your  free  will,  life's  free  power,  wins  for  your  life 
the  freedom  which  God  purposes  if  thus  you  choose. 
Think  wisely,  O  man. 

Wilberfo?'ce. 

Will  for  life  worthy,  man  who  is  life  immortal. 
Why,  I  tell  you  thus — For  that  life  personal  which 
is  this  man  you  yourself  win  the  worth  that  permits 
freedom  if  thus  you  wish.  Your  will,  your  free  will 
use  well  then.  Thus  you  win  for  life  personal  the 
wider  life  that  God  wills.  You  the  man,  for  the 
man  has  that  purpose  by  which  life  is  made  worthy, 
win  for  your  life  personal  its  wider  fuller  life  if 
thus  you  choose.  Think  then,  man  who  wills  for 
life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
purposes  for  life  of  man  worth  for  wider,  fuller 
life.  Man  who  is  free  wills  for  life  while  it  is  on 
earth.  Then  life  wins  when  free  man  thus  wills 
the  wider  life  purposed  by  God. 

Think  what  you  read !    This  man,  this  man  who 


Will  Free  Wins  for  Life  Freedom       119 

is  life  to-day,  wins  for  his  life  wider,  fuller  life 
if  thus  he  wishes.  The  wider  life  purposed  by  life's 
JNlaker  is  won  when  man  thus  wills.  Heed  the 
word,  you  who  will  for  life. 

Miltiades. 

jNIan,  the  personal  life  who  wills  that  life  win 
personal  wider  life  by  willing  that  man's  life  keep 
firm  and  keep  worthy,  has  the  free  will  which  he 
uses  from  his  Maker.  That  power  which  he  uses 
for  personal  worth  is  life's  power.  For  life  worthy 
man  wills  when  he  chooses.  Yet  his  life  fulfills 
the  purpose  of  its  ^laker  surely.  Then  that  worth 
which  wins  wider  life  man,  the  life,  finds,  though 
life  as  this  man  may  will  unworthily.  Hope  then, 
who  wish  wider  life;  hope,  but  keep  firm.  If  by 
this  man  life  is  kept  firm  this  life  wins  freedom. 
Think  then,  man  who  wills  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Wilier,  who  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is,  wills  that  while  life  is  man  it  win  worth 
for  wider  life.  That  worth  life  wins  by  free  will, 
for  God  made  life  free.  But  free  will  finally  be- 
comes wise  free  will.  Wise,  firm  free  will,  taught 
by  the  work  and  life  of  man,  wins  for  life  its  worth 
for  wider  life.  All  lives  find  that  will  for  life 
worthy  which  God  purposes  finally.  No  life  may 
for  always  will  unworthily.  None  lives  who  fails 
to  win  life  wider.     None  lives  who  wins  worth 


120  Man,  The  Life  Free 

forced.  When  free  life  wills  for  life  worthy  firmly 
life  fulfills  God's  will.  Think  well,  man  who  is 
life,  think  well.  Now  will  free  may  be  well  used. 
This  life  who  wills  to-day  in  this  man  wins  free- 
dom finally.  This  life  may  win  the  worth  for 
freedom  while  this  man  wills.  Think,  who  will 
for  life,  think  well. 


X 

WILL  OF  LIFE  MAN  HAS 


WILL  OF  LIFE  MAN   HAS 

Dr.  Coulter. 

MAN  was  made  finite.  His  power,  will, 
is  finite.  By  that  finite  power,  though, 
man  fulfills  the  purpose  of  his  Maker. 
The  life  wills  as  man  on  earth,  the  life 
immortal  wills  as  man.  That  life  who  by  finite 
will  wins  the  worth  purposed  for  life  on  earth  wins 
wider  life.  Then  wider  life  is  won  by  man's  free 
will,  for  man  is  the  life  on  earth.  This  life  is  won 
by  life  personal,  man's  life  of  immortal  self,  and 
that  which  Higher  Will  pin*poses  for  life  immortal, 
wider  personal  life,  is  won  by  man's  free  will. 
Then  by  man's  free  will  (which  is  life's  free  will, 
for  life  on  earth  wills  as  man),  is  won  the  higher 
life  of  personal  self.  Think,  who  will  for  life  to- 
day, think  well. 

Man  who  wills  for  life  worthy  wills  by  free  will 
his  own.  Man  who  is  life  immortal  wins  the  worth 
that  life  immortal  is  purposed  to  attain  on  earth. 
That  he  win  for  life  immortal  firm  purpose  God 
wills;  that  he,  w^hile  his  work  he  finishes,  find  pur- 

123 


124  Man,  The  Life  Free 

pose  firm  for  worth  God  wflls;  yet  his  will  God 
makes  wholly  free.  Then  man  when  he  wishes 
fulfills  the  purpose  for  life  of  its  Maker. 
When  by  man's  free  will  life  wins  that  worth 
which  Higher  Will  purposes,  his  life  fulfills  the 
purpose  of  God.  Why  then  wait  to  will  for  life 
worthy,  man  who  is  life  to-day?  You  win  for  life 
the  worth  for  life  higher  if  thus  you  wish.  Think 
then,  and  think  well,  man  of  earth. 

Wilber force. 

Will  Higher  makes  life  man.  By  free  will  man 
wins  his  worth,  for  God  makes  him  free.  Will  free 
that  man  uses  is  free  will  of  life.  By  life's  free 
will,  then,  man  wins  that  worth  for  wider  life 
which  God  purposes.  Worth  for  the  higher  life 
purposed  by  God  is,  and  must  be  won  by  life  who 
is  free.  Then  while  life  is  man  it  finds  that  worth 
which  permits  wider  hfe.  While  life  wills  on  earth 
it  is  man ;  while  life  wills  as  man  it  finds  that  worth 
for  higher  life  which  God  purposes.  Being  life 
personal,  being  life  free  then,  that  worth  will,  and 
must  be  found  by  man's  free  choice.  For  that 
worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  man  wills  as 
life  free.  His  life  wills  as  he  wills.  Then  his  will, 
and  that  will  is  life's  will,  wins  the  higher  life  which 
God  purposes. 

Will  Higher,  whose  j)urpose  hfe  fulfills,  made 


WiU  of  Life  Man  Has  125 

life  man  for  earth.  Will  Higher  rules  life  which 
He  made  both  while  it  is  man  on  earth  and  for- 
ever. Will  Higher  purposes  for  life  while  life  is. 
Then  that  which  He  purposes  life  fulfills,  for  His 
will  is  omnipotent.  Why  then  may  life  who  must 
fulfill  God's  purpose  will  for  worth  or  unworthi- 
ness  as  it  pleases?  Man  was  made  free;  that  an- 
swers. Then  that  which  Higher  Will  purposes 
life  fulfills  using  free  will.  God  purposes  for  life 
worth  for  life  wider ;  that  worth  life  attains  willing 
for  itself;  then  life  whom  God  made  fulfills  by  free 
will  His  purpose.  Man  who  is  life  for  earth  has 
for  his  must  to  find  the  worth  that  frees  life  im- 
mortal from  man.  That  free  will  which  God  makes 
life's  power  finally  fulfills  His  will.  All  lives  find 
the  worth  for  freedom  while  life  wills  as  man. 
While  life  wills  on  earth  it  finds  by  God's  purpose 
that  worth  which  brings  wider,  fuller  life.  Man 
wins  that  worth  by  his  free  will.  Think,  man  who 
is  life.  You  will  for  that  worth  when  you  thus  wish. 
Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  free  man  has,  life's  free  power.  That  power 
wins  life's  worth  always.  This  time  of  life  where 
it  is  man,  this  time  when  life  may  win  worth,  the 
man  who  is  life  wins  that  worth  if  he  thus  wishes. 
Think  then,  man  who  is  life.  Free  your  life  you 
may  this  time.  Is  it  worth  work  hard  to  do  this? 
Think,  man  who  is  life,  think. 


XI 
WORTH  OF  LIFE  IN  MAN 


WORTH  OF  LIFE  IN  MAN 

Dr.  Coulter. 

HE  who  made  life  man  wills  that  while 
life  is  man  it  find  the  worth  for  higher, 
fuller  life.  JVIan's  will  free  was  made 
his  power  that  he  will  worth  for  himself. 
Will  free  was  made  man's  power  by  Him  who 
purposes  for  life  of  man  worth.  Would  life  free 
win  forced  worth?  Would  forced  life  win  worth 
at  all?  Would  that  which  life  must  find  to  fulfill 
God's  purpose  be  forced  worth?  The  will  which 
He  who  purposes  for  life  worth  made  free  wins 
that  worth.  Then  life  free  fulfills  God's  purpose. 
Man,  the  free  life,  wills  for  worth  when  he  wishes ; 
man,  the  bound  life,  wills  for  worth  when  his  life 
is  taught  wise  use  of  free  will.  God  teaches  that 
free  life  for  whom  He  purposes  worth.  By  the 
work  of  man,  by  the  weak  will  of  man,  by  the  weak- 
ness that  brings  to  the  life  penalty.  He  teaches  life 
wisdom.  Man  who  knows  he  is  free  wills  that 
worth  which  life  is  by  its  Maker  purposed.  Man, 
the  free  fife,  wins  by  free  will  the  fuller  life.    Then 

129 


130  3Imh  The  Life  Free 

man  who  wills  this  time  for  worth  wins  for  his  life 
immortal  the  higher,  fuller,  worthier  life  of  free- 
dom. 

He  who  made  man  life  made  liim  life  free.  He 
who  made  man  free  life  purposes  for  that  life  which 
He  made.  He  who  made  life  for  worth  wills  that 
life  win  by  free  will  its  worth.  Will  free,  then, 
fulfills  for  life  the  purpose  of  its  JNIaker.  Will  free 
makes  life  that  is  by  God  purj^osed  higher  life  than 
that  of  earth  worthy  that  higher  life.  Man  who 
wills  for  worth  when  he  wishes  is  life  that  finds 
worth  by  God's  purpose.  Man's  free  will  finally 
makes  life  worthy  wider  life.  Will  free,  will  made 
life's  power  by  the  Life  who  is  Infinite,  wins  for 
life  the  finite  worth  purposed  when  that  life  was 
made.  Man  who  is  life,  think.  What  use  will  you 
make  of  that  will  free  which  must  make  that  life 
worthy  higher  life?  You  will  for  life  this  time  of 
life  on  earth.  Will  free,  your  own  free  will  may, 
if  thus  you  firmly  purpose,  win  for  your  life  im- 
mortal the  higher  life  of  freedom.  Think  well, 
O  man. 

Man,  who  is  life  personal,  has  for  his  power 
the  will  of  life  personal.  His  life,  being  willed 
life,  being  also  willed  its  free  will,  has  for  its  must 
to  fulfill  by  free  will  the  purpose  of  its  Maker. 
Life  who  wills  using  free  will  finally  wills  as  its 
Maker  purposes.     Free  will  fulfills  for  life  the 


Worth  of  Life  in  Man  131 

purpose  of  Him  who  made  it  free.  God  wills; 
that  which  He  made  fulfills  as  He  wills,  by  the 
wise  use  of  its  willed  free  will,  His  purpose.  Wise 
the  life  becomes  while  it  wills  as  man  on  earth. 
Wise  life,  taught  wisdom  by  the  purpose  of  its 
Maker,  fulfills  His  purpose.  Man  who  is  free 
wins  for  his  life  personal  the  higher  life  of  per- 
sonal self.  Will  free,  that  power  which  He  who 
made  life  wills  to  be  that  life's  power,  fulfills  finally 
His  purpose  that  life  win  the  worth  which  frees  it 
from  earth.  His  purpose  who  made  life  free  life 
free  fulfills. 

He  who  willed  life  into  being  wills  for  that  life 
while  He  permits  it  being.  Will  free  He  made 
the  life's  power,  will  that  the  life  uses  while  it  is. 
Then  His  purpose  for  life  must  by  the  will  that 
He  made  life's  power  be  fulfilled.  INIan,  who  wills 
as  he  wishes  always,  wins  for  life  the  wider  life 
purposed  by  life's  Maker.  Then  will  free  of  man 
fulfills  the  purpose  which  life  must  fulfill  on  earth. 
That  worth  which  God  purposes  that  life  win  on 
earth  it  wins  using  free  will.  Always  its  worth 
is  won  by  free  will.  God  wills  for  life,  and  His 
purpose  life  fulfills  by  the  way  He  wills,  the  free 
use  of  the  power  will  which  He  makes  life's  power. 
All  that  He  who  wills  for  life  purposes  that  life 
fulfills.  But  while  it  is  man  free  will  it  may  use 
weakly,  for  He  who  made  life  man  made  life  free. 


132  Man,  The  Life  Free 

The  will  which  life  uses  in  man,  taught  wisdom  by 
God's  purpose,  wins  the  worth  that  by  His  pur- 
pose life  finds  while  it  is  man.  That  which  life  finds 
of  God's  purpose  it  wins,  through  His  purpose 
also,  using  free  will  its  own.  Man  wills  that  which 
God  purposes  that  life  will  when  he,  as  life,  is 
taught  by  his  work  and  life  of  earth.  Taught  life 
wills  as  its  Teacher  purposes  finally.  Will  free 
finally  fulfills  for  life  the  purpose  of  its  Maker, 
God. 

Man  free  wills  the  worth  of  life  on  earth.  He 
who  wills  to-day  is  life  personal,  life  immortal. 
Will  free  he  has  from  Him  who  purposes  that  life 
win  the  worth  for  freedom  from  earth.  What  has 
life  to  find  to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  its  Maker? 
Worth  for  higher  life.  Worth  of  life  free  will 
necessarily  be  found  through  wise  use  of  the  life's 
free  will.  That  wise  use  God  purposes,  but  wise 
use  man  chooses  when  he  thus  wishes.  Yet  life 
free  fulfills  the  purpose  of  God.  Willing  its  worth 
by  its  will  free,  life  personal  wins  wider  life.  Man 
who  is  life  on  earth  wills  that  worth  himself,  but 
man  wills  unworthily  perhaps.  Has  life  then  ful- 
filled God's  purpose?  Has  free  will  then  been 
used  as  God  purposes?  That  free  life  win  higher 
life,  that  free  life  win  worth  to  eternity  life's  Maker 
purposes.  Then  life  while  it  wills  on  earth  finds 
by  wise  use  of  its  free  will  that  worth  which  God 


Worth  of  Life  in  Man  133 

purposes  for  life  on  earth.  That  worth  found,  hfe 
wins  higher  life.  That  firm,  wise  free  will  which 
makes  life  worthy  for  yet  wider  life  is  found,  and 
must  be  found  while  life  is  man.  God  purposes, 
and  life  fulfills  finally  His  purpose. 

Wilbej'force. 

Man  who  has  free  will  is  life  of  free  will.  God 
wills  for  life  that  free  will  win  its  worth,  for  He 
made  life  personal  self.  Then  forced  worth  life  is 
not  purposed,  but  worth  won  by  life's  free  will. 
He  who  purposes  for  life  made  life  free;  His  pur- 
pose life  free  fulfills.  Worth  which  life  finds  it 
finds  of  free  choice.  Man  who  wills  for  life  wins 
for  life  its  worth  using  life's  free  will.  That  will 
which  life  uses  while  it  is  man  is  man's  free  will. 
He  who  purposes  for  life  worth  purposes  that  the 
life  free  win  that  worth,  and  His  purpose  life  ful- 
fills willing  for  itself  that  worth.  He  who  made 
life  free  teaches  the  life  wise  use  of  free  will.  Life 
wins  that  worth  which  God  purposes,  then,  taught 
by  His  purpose  wisdom  in  use  of  free  will. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  worth  won  by 
its  free  will,  was  when  life  made  was  not.  He  who 
willed  life  into  being  was  when  the  Universe  was 
not.  His  will,  the  will  of  Omnipotence,  wills  for 
all  that  He  made.  Will  for  life  worthy  He  pur- 
poses that  life  find  while  it  is  man  on  earth.    Free 


134  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

is  the  life  made.  By  free  will  that  its  JNIaker  gives 
it  life  fulfills  His  purpose.  Well  life  wills  on 
earth  finall3\  Will  free  taught  by  life  on  earth, 
free  will  taught  wisdom  by  God's  jDurposed  teach- 
ing, wins  for  life  the  higher  life  purposed  by  God 
when  life  was  by  Him  made.  Man  who  is  wholly 
free,  for  he  is  life  whom  God  made  free,  wins  for 
life  personal,  his  immortal  life,  the  worth  by  which 
that  life  is  made  worthy  the  higher  life  purposed 
by  God. 

Will  Higher,  life's  JNIaker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is.  Man,  life  immortal,  who  finds  through 
his  work  teaching  that  helps  both  him  and  life  itself, 
man  the  life  for  whom  life  wider  is  purposed,  wins 
the  worth  which  prepares  for  wider  life  using  his 
free  will.  His  free  will  is  life's  free  will.  His 
worth  becomes  life's  worth.  His  wise  free  will 
wins  for  life  the  worth  purposed  by  life's  Maker. 
That  worth  which  man  by  free  will  wins  frees  life 
from  earth.  God  wills  that  freedom  be  won  by 
man,  the  life  for  whom  free  will  is  made  help. 
While  life  freely  wills  on  earth  life  finds  the  worth 
which  God  purposes,  the  worth  for  wider  life,  and 
life's  free  will,  made  life's  power  for  help,  fulfills 
God's  purpose  when  man  well  and  wisely  uses  it 
for  worth.  Win  freedom  life  may  then  if  this  man 
firmly  uses  his  free  will,  for  that  which  makes  life 
worthy  wider  life  is  the  worth  won  by  man. 


Worth  of  Life  in  Man  135 

Will  Higher  places  life  made  by  Him  in  man 
who  lives  earth  life.  What  purposes  He  for  that 
life?  Will  firm,  purpose  firm,  worth  for  wider, 
fuller,  more  glorious  life.  What  for  life  purposes 
He?  Man's  life  of  work,  man's  life  of  weary  work 
perhaps,  and  by  that  work  firm  purpose  found. 
What  purposes  He  for  life?  Weak  will  for  life 
worthy  overcome,  weak  purpose  not  used.  For 
what  life  wills  man  by  His  purpose?  For  wide 
life,  freed  from  weakness,  full  with  worth  won  by 
free  purpose,  worth  far  beyond  man's  thougiht. 
Then,  man  who  has  free  will,  think  well.  God's 
purpose  for  life  you  may  fulfill  while  this  man  is 
life.  For  what  then  would  the  man  purpose  who 
wishes  wider  life?  For  his  man's  life  worthy.  All 
life  fulfills  God's  purpose  finally.  Your  life  will 
fulfill  His  purpose,  but  this  man,  you  who  purpose 
this  time  of  life  on  earth,  may,  if  thus  you  wish, 
fulfill  God's  purpose  that  your  life  immortal  find 
worth  for  the  wider,  fuller,  happier  life  of  freedom. 
Think  well  then,  man  of  life  immortal,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  whom  Pie  made 
finally  fulfills,  was  when  life  was  not  made.  His 
purpose  that  which  He  willed  being  must  fulfill. 
Well  the  life  willed  being  by  Him  wills  for  itself 
finally.  His  purpose  the  life  willed  to  be  free  ful- 
fills, winning  its  worth  itself.  Man,  who  is  the 
life  willed,  whose  power,  will,  He  who  made  him 


136  Man,  The  Life  Free 

life  made  free,  fulfills  by  that  free  power  His  pur- 
pose. Though  many  men  will  weakly  for  the  one 
life,  that  life  finally  wills  well.  Man,  who  uses  for 
his  worth  the  free  power  of  life  immortal,  by  that 
free  power  wins  for  life  immortal  the  higher  life 
purposed  by  Will  Higher  when  He  made  life. 
Will  free  fulfills  for  life  the  purpose  of  its  Maker. 
Life  finite,  willed  free  will  by  the  Life  Infinite,  ful- 
fills itself  His  purpose. 

Will  Higher,  who  willed  life  into  being,  purposes 
for  that  life  while  it  wills  as  man,  while  it  wills  for 
the  life  wider.  Forever  Will  Higher  purposes  for 
life  willed  being  by  Him.  That  which  life  finds 
freely  willing,  the  worth  for  wider  life,  it  finds 
through  the  purpose  of  its  Maker.  Then  life 
forced  wills  worth?  No,  free  life  wills  the  worth 
which  God  purposes.  Will  for  life  personal  is  made 
free.  Will  for  life  worthy  is  will  free  wisely  used 
by  life  personal.  Wide  worth  life  finds  willing  for 
itself.  While  it  wins  that  worth  wide  life  becomes 
through  the  wise  use  of  free  will?  No,  wide  life 
becomes  by  the  purpose  of  its  Maker.  Yet  life 
wins  the  worth  for  better  life  using  for  its  worth 
the  free  will  given  by  its  Maker.  Man  wins  by  his 
free  will  the  worth  which  life  finds  on  earth.  From 
life  of  earth  freed  forever,  sdf  of  man,  life  personal 
still  when  freed,  wins  the  wider  worth  purposed  by 
God  wisely  using  the  free  will  which  won  its  worth 


Worth  of  Life  in  3Ian  137 

for  freedom  from  earth.  Well  life  finally  wills 
on  earth.  Then  freed,  and  willing  for  worth  firmly 
forever,  life  personal  fulfills  thus  the  purpose  of 
its  Maker,  God. 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  man's  Maker  (for 
life  on  earth  He  wills  to  be  man),  was  when  life 
which  wills  for  itself  was  not  made.  Will  Higher, 
life's  Wilier,  made  life's  will  free.  Man  who  is  life 
for  earth  wills  for  that  worth  which  God  purposes 
using  the  free  will  which  God  makes  his  power. 
Will  free,  will  willed  to  be  free,  makes  life  made  by 
Will  Higher  worthy  the  higher  life  purposed  by 
Will  Higher.  What  food  for  thought!  Man  who 
has  from  Life  Infinite  his  finite  life,  man  who  wills 
finitely  being  made  finite  life,  man  whose  purpose 
and  will  were  by  God  made  powers  of  life  itself, 
wins  finally,  using  those  powers,  the  higher  life 
purposed  by  God.  Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  life 
while  it  is,  made  man  for  life  worthy?  No,  made 
life  for  worth.  Man  wins,  however,  the  worth  that 
God  purposes  for  life  on  earth  using  life's  free 
power.  Life  purposed  wider,  fuller,  worthier  life, 
wins  on  earth  the  worth  which  prepares  for  the 
higher,  worthier,  fuller  life  purposed  when  life  was 
by  God  willed  to  be  man.  Will  free,  life's  will,  man 
uses  for  the  worth  which  wins  wider,  fuller,  worthier 


138  Man,  The  Life  Free 

life.     Help  men  to  understand,  we  pray  Thee,  O 
God. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds.  That  his  life  win 
that  will  God  purposes ;  that  life  win  that  will  while 
it  is  life  of  man  He  purposes.  When  free  life  wins 
the  worth  which  its  Maker  purposes  that  it  shall 
win  while  it  is  man.  He  frees  the  life  from  earth. 
His  purpose  life  free  fulfills.  Man,  the  life,  wins 
finally  that  worth  which  brings  freedom  for  life 
itself.  Man,  the  life  free,  wins  himself  that  worth 
which  makes  personal  self  worthy  higher  life.  Will 
of  life  in  man,  will  that  man  uses  while  life  is  man, 
wins  for  that  life  the  wider,  better  life.  Think, 
man  who  wills  for  life,  think. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  life  which 
He  made  that  by  will  free  it  win  the  worth  that 
it  finds  while  it  is  man.  That  worth  frees  life  from 
man;  yet  by  man's  free  will  that  worth  is  finally 
found.  Will  for  life  worthy,  purposed  will  for  life 
while  it  is  man,  wins  by  God's  purpose  life's  worth 
for  freedom  from  man  and  earth.  By  will  free  life 
wins  the  worth  purposed  by  its  Maker.  Will  free, 
life's  willed  free  power,  fulfills  finally  God's  pur- 
pose for  life  of  man.  While  life  wills  as  man  on 
earth  it  finds  that  worth  which  permits  freedom 
from  man.  Will  for  life  worthy,  will  that  life  finds 
for  itself,  makes  that  life  worthy  the  higher,  fuller 
Hfe  purposed  from  the  willing  of  all.     Man,  the 


Worth  of  Life  in  Man  139 

life  who  wills  freely  while  he  works  on  earth,  is  life 
who  finally  wins  the  worth  which  frees  life  from 
man  and  earth.  Will  for  life  worthy  found  as  He 
who  wills  for  life  purposes,  by  the  life  who  thus 
wishes,  wins  for  that  life  the  wider  life  which  He 
who  made  life  free  purposes.  Man  using  for  worth 
firmly  his  free  will  thus  fulfills  God's  purpose  for 
life  on  earth. 

Will  Higher  purposes  for  the  life  whom  He 
made  far  wider  life  than  that  of  man.  That  wider 
life  begins  when  man  has  won  for  life  immortal 
worth  for  freedom.  Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds 
by  God's  purpose,  yet  finds  it  of  man's  free  will. 
Well  for  life  the  man  will  purpose  who  wishes  the 
first  wider  life  of  self.  His  will  for  life  worthy  will 
be  firm,  his  purpose  for  life  worthy  will  be  firm. 
Man  himself  wins  the  first  worth  of  immortal  life, 
which  first  worth  wins  life's  first  wider  life.  Then 
firm,  full  of  will  to  keep  worthy,  happily  purposing 
to  win  yet  wider  life,  self  thanks  life's  Maker  for- 
ever for  His  purpose.  What  food  for  thought  we 
give  you,  O  men.     Heed  well  our  words. 


XII 

WILL  FREE  FULFILLS  GOD'S  PUR- 
POSE 


WILL    FREE    FULFILLS    GOd's    PURPOSE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

MAN,  who  is  life  for  earth,  wins  by  his 
free  will  the  worth  which  God  purposes 
that  life  on  earth  shall  find.  Man,  who 
wills  that  which  he  pleases,  is  life  for 
whom  God's  purpose  is  the  must.  When  life  ful- 
fills the  purpose  of  its  Maker,  free  will  has  made 
life  worthy.  Man  is  life  for  whom  wider  life  is 
by  God  purposed.  He  wills  for  his  worth  by  free 
will,  being  made  life  of  free  will.  His  free  will 
is  by  Higher  Will  ruled  then?  No,  free  is  the  will 
of  life  always.  Yet  the  free  will  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose. Then  life  made  free  has  the  must  of  God's 
purpose  for  its  must.  That  must  is  that  of  free  will 
life  fulfill  His  purpose.  Then  man  who  wills  of 
free  will  chooses  the  worth  which  God  purposes 
finally.  When  life  free  to  choose  worth  or  un- 
worthiness  chooses  worth  it  fulfills  the  higher  pur- 
pose of  Him  who  made  it  free.  But  life  free  in 
will  has  the  purpose  of  God  for  its  must.  How 
may  that  be?  men  may  think.     ^lan  wills  by  will 

143 


144  Man,  The  Life  Free 

given  by  life's  Wilier.  Life  free  to  will  as  it 
wishes  finally  wills  as  God  purposes.  Then  life  free 
finally  wills  as  God  purposes  by  free  will.  Must 
compels  life  then?  Yes,  but  life  is  taught  wisdom 
by  its  JNIaker.  When  life  is  by  Higher  Purpose 
taught  wise  use  of  free  will  it  chooses  worth. 
Higher  purpose  of  Him  who  made  life  is  finally  by 
free  will  of  life  fulfilled.  Then  life  which  wills 
as  it  wishes  finally  wishes  to  fulfill  God's  purpose. 
Man  who  has  free  will  by  that  free  will  makes  life 
which  is  purposed  worth  ready  for  the  wider,  fuller 
life  which,  from  the  willing  of  all,  God  purposed. 
Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  was  when  life  of 
man  was  not.  His  will,  the  will  of  Life  Infinite, 
wills  for  the  life  made  finite.  That  which  life  finite 
wills  is  willed  by  the  power  made  his  by  Life  In- 
finite. Man  has  for  will  given  power.  His  use 
of  that  power,  free  though  it  be,  is  by  Higher  Will 
limited.  Then  life  finite  must  will  within  the  limit 
set  by  Life  Infinite,  and  the  will  which  is  by  Will 
Higher  made  free  fulfills  as  Will  Higher  wills 
His  purpose.  Man  who  is  life  finite  has  will  made 
his,  and  that  will  fulfills,  as  the  Higher  Will  pur- 
poses, His  will.  God,  who  is  Will  Higher,  made 
life  finite.  Life  finite  fulfills  God's  will  by  the 
power,  free  will,  which  God  makes  life's  power. 
Will  free,  made  free  by  Higher  Will,  fulfills  the 
Higher  Will.    Then  life  while  it  is  man  wills  that 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose        145 

which,  by  God's  purpose,  it  must  will.  Man,  the 
life,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  life's  Maker  by  will 
made  free. 

Man  who  wills  with  willed  power,  free  will,  who 
has  for  his  use  life's  free  power,  makes  his  life 
worthy  by  that  power.  His  will,  being  willed  power, 
will  be  while  he  uses  it  subject  to  the  will  of  Him 
who  gives  it.  But  that  would  make  free  will  bound. 
That  would  not  mean  bound  will,  for  free  life  is 
while  it  wills,  we  know.  All  lives  use  free  will  by 
which  to  win  that  worth  which  Higher  Will  pur- 
poses. Life  free  fulfills  God's  purpose;  life  free 
wins  higher,  worthier,  fuller  life.  Man  wills 
his  worth  himself,  though  that  worth  is  by  Higher 
Will  purposed.  Man  knows  his  will  is  free.  Man 
who  uses  free  will  fulfills  the  purpose  of  the  Wilier 
of  his  life.  Man  who  wills  worth  when  he  wishes 
wins  finally  that  worth  which  brings  for  life  immor- 
tal freedom  from  earth.  Man  who  is  wholly  free 
wins  for  his  life  personal,  his  immortal  self,  higher, 
worthier,  fuller  life.  Thank  God  we  do  who  have 
won  this  life  for  His  purpose  that  life  free  win 
wider  fife.  Man  free,  life  free  fulfill  God's  will, 
and  all  lives  made  by  Him  finally  fulfill  His  will. 

Man  who  wills  using  his  free  power,  who  wills 
that  which  he  himself  wishes,  is  life  who  must  fulfill 
the  purpose  of  its  Maker ;  yet  to  that  life  its  Maker 
gives  free  will.    That  life  win  its  purposed  worth 


146  Man,  The  Life  Free 

using  free  power  God  wills.  Life  fulfills  the  will 
of  its  Maker,  using  the  power  which  He  makes 
free.  Will  for  life  worthy  is  finally  won  by  the 
life  free  to  will  as  it  pleases.  Will  for  life  worthy 
life  finds  while  it  wills  as  man,  for  life's  JNIaker 
purposes  that  that  will  be  found  on  earth.  Free 
will,  made  life's  power  by  its  Maker,  finally  fulfills 
His  purpose  for  that  life. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  finally  fulfills, 
was  when  life  made  by  Him  was  not.  Life  made 
has  powers  willed.  Man,  who  is  the  life  for  earth, 
wills,  then,  using  the  willed  power  of  life  made. 
His  will,  being  free,  was  made  free;  his  purpose, 
which  he  uses  for  the  worth  which  life  finds  while  it 
wills  on  earth,  is  willed  power.  Man,  the  life  on 
earth,  wills  as  the  Maker  of  life  purposes  then, 
for  that  which  He  who  made  life  purposes  for  the 
life  made  that  life  fulfills.  Yet  life  was  made  free, 
and  that  free  will  which  He  who  made  life  wills  to 
be  free  fulfills  His  purpose.  When  life  taught 
wise  use  of  free  will  wins  the  wider  life  purposed 
by  life's  Maker  man  wills.  Though  life  be  free, 
life  finally  wills  for  the  worth  which  God  purposes ; 
man  is  life  for  earth ;  then  finally  life,  as  man,  wills 
that  which  wins  the  wider  life  purposed  by  God 
when  He  made  life.  Though  man  will  weakly,  life 
finally  wills  well.  Each  man  wills  as  he  pleases. 
Life  taught  wise  use  of  free  will  finally  wills  for 


Will  Free  Fid  fills  God's  Purpose        147 

the  worth  which  God  purposes.  Life  is  taught  that 
wise  use  while  it  is  man.  Then  while  life  is  man 
on  earth  wise  use  of  free  will,  purposed  wise  use 
(for  thus  Will  Higher  purposes)  is  learned,  and 
man,  the  life  made,  who  wills  always  using  free 
will,  finally  wills  the  worth  which  wins  freedom 
from  earth  for  life  immortal. 

The  personal  will  of  man  makes  life  personal 
worthy  wider,  fuller  life.  That  will,  made  man's 
power  by  the  Wilier  of  his  life,  wins,  when  man 
wisely  uses  it,  that  worth  which  fits  life  personal 
for  higher  life.  That  will,  made  free  by  God,  wins 
for  life  its  worth  when  man  thus  wishes,  for  life 
free  wins  its  worth  itself.  Wide  life  becomes 
when  freed,  high  its  purpose.  AVise  the  life  be- 
comes when  taught  by  God's  teaching.  Man  who 
wills  the  worth  of  life  on  earth  thus  fulfills  for 
life  the  purpose  of  its  Maker.  When  life  free  wins 
worth  that  fits  it  for  wider  life  God  translates  it 
to  the  wider,  fuller  life.  But  man  himself,  man 
who  wills  for  worth  when  he  thus  pleases  (for  he 
is  made  free  life  by  God),  must  win  the  personal 
worth  which  makes  personal  life  worthy  the  wider, 
fuller  life.  IVIan  himself  wins  freedom,  then,  for 
life  immortal. 

Will  Higher  made  life  free  of  will,  free  to  will 
worth  or  unworthiness  then;  but  the  purpose  of 
Omnipotent  Will  is  by  the  will  of  life  made  ful- 


148  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

filled.  Man  who  wills  as  he  wishes  is  life  bound  by 
God's  purpose,  and  will  that  God  made  free  is  will 
that  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  it  free. 
How  would  life  willed  freedom  find  worth?  By 
free  will.  How  would  life  willed  w^orth,  yet  made 
free,  find  worth?  By  free  will.  What  for  life  pur- 
poses God,  its  Maker?  That  by  free  will  life  ful- 
fill His  purpose.  Then  man,  who  is  life  while  life 
wills  on  earth,  wins  the  worth  which  God  purposes 
for  life  there  using  his  free  will.  For  that  worth 
which  life  finds  by  the  purpose  of  God  life  wills 
of  free  will.  Then  life  free  thus  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose. Man  wills  the  worth  of  life  on  earth ;  by  free 
will  that  worth  is  won;  thus  will  free,  made  man's 
power  by  Will  Higher,  fulfills  for  life  the  purpose 
of  Will  Higher.  IVIan,  then,  who  wills  for  life  on 
earth,  fulfills  God's  purpose  when  he  wills  for 
worth.  All  life  finally  fulfills  God's  purpose.  But 
man  who  Mills  unworthily  has  not  fulfilled  God's 
purpose,  and  his  life  waits  for  freedom.  That 
which  for  life  fulfills  God's  purpose  is  man's  free 
will;  thus  Will  Higher  wills.  Then  life  while  it 
wills  as  man  finally  wills  that  which  makes  life  wor- 
thy. For  that  worth  which  life  finds  by  Higher 
Purpose  it  wills  of  its  free  will,  thus  fulfilling  as 
He  wills  the  higher  purpose  of  its  JNIaker. 

Man  who  wills  of  free  will  has  his  will  from  God, 
his  Maker.    Will,  the  power  of  personal  self,  will 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose        149 

which  man  uses  for  life,  his  Maker  makes  his  power. 
Will  that  is  life's  will  man  has,  for  life  while  it  is 
on  earth  is  man.  Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  pur- 
poses for  that  life  which  he  made  man  worth  for  life 
wider  won  by  the  free  will  that  He  makes  life's 
power.  Man  then,  the  life  on  earth,  wills  the  worth 
purposed  by  God  for  life  on  earth.  While  life  wills 
as  man  it  finds  firm  purpose  for  life  worthy,  willed 
to  find  firm  purpose  by  life's  Maker;  yet  life  wins 
of  free  will  that  purpose.  His  purpose  who  made 
life  free  is  fulfilled  by  the  free  will  that  He  gives 
life.  Man,  then,  when  his  free  will  makes  his  man's 
life  worthy,  fulfills  the  purpose  of  the  Life  Infinite, 
God. 

Man  who  wills  of  free  will  is  life  that,  by  the  pur- 
pose of  its  Maker,  wins  wider  life  than  that  of 
earth.  Man,  who  wills  using  the  free  will  of  life 
personal,  wins  by  his  wise  use  of  that  free  will  his 
worth.  When  will  free  is  well  and  firmly  used  for 
life  worthy  by  man,  life  immortal  wins  the  wider 
life  which  God  purposes.  While  life  wills  as  man 
that  wider  life  is  won.  By  man's  free  will  that 
wider  life  is  won.  Think,  man  who  wills  for  life 
immortal.  That  wider  life  is,  and  must  be  won 
by  man.  You  will  for  life  what  it  becomes  this  time 
on  earth.  Why  then  will  unworthily?  Wise  will 
well  used  frees  life,  weak  will  unworthily  used 
keeps  life  to  earth.    Think  well,  O  man,  think  well. 


150  Man,  The  Life  Free 

Wilherforce. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  life's  Wilier,  wills 
for  that  life  while  it  wills,  free  to  vAW  as  it  pleases. 
JNIan  who  finds  worth  finds  it  by  his  free  will.  God 
wills  for  life  that,  freely  willing,  it  win  the  higher 
life  which  for  life  He  purposes.  Man  wills  using 
the  will  made  his,  free  will.  Then  life  who  wins 
higher  life  has  won  it  by  its  own  free  will. 

Will  Higher,  who  made  life  for  earth  man,  rules 
that  life  while  it  is.  But  He  made  life  free  in  will. 
Then  life  willed  worth  by  Higher  Will  finds  that 
worth  of  free  will.  Man,  the  life,  finally  wills  for 
worth.  Self  personal,  life  for  worth  purposed, 
must  by  free  will  find  that  worth. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  all  that  He  made 
fulfills,  was  Life  Infinite  when  life  finite  He  willed 
into  being.  Life  willed  by  Him  fulfills  as  He  wills 
His  purpose.  Man  who  wills  using  the  free  will 
which  He  gives,  man  who  fulfills  God's  purpose  by 
his  free  choice,  is  life  which  was  made  free.  Then 
will  free  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Him  who  made  life 
free.  Then  life  who  wills  unworthily  fulfills  not 
God's  purpose.  What  for  that  life  then?  Penalty 
of  life  on  earth  again,  penalty  of  life  weak  perhaps 
again.  For  life  who  wills  unwisely  He  who  made 
life  free  exacts  penalty.  What  for  the  life  who 
fulfills  as  He  wills  His  will?    Life  higher,  work 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose        151 

higher,  worth  fuller.  Heed  the  word,  man  who 
purposes  for  life  to-day.  Will  free  must  make  life 
worthj^  purpose  free  must  keep  life  worthy  if  you 
would  win  higher  life.    Tliink  well,  O  man. 

Will  free,  man's  power,  finally  wins  for  life  its 
worth  for  wider,  fuller  life.  Will  free  wins  for  life 
its  worth  forever.  Man  wills  for  life  while  life  is 
on  earth.  Life  wills  forever  with  the  will  that  man 
uses  while  life  is  man  on  earth.  Man  himself,  who 
wills  for  life  while  life  is  working  on  earth,  wins 
by  his  free  will  the  worth  which  brings  for  life  its 
wider  life,  freed  from  weakness,  freed  from  life 
unworthy,  thankful  forever  for  God's  purpose  that 
it  find  freedom  willing  for  its  worth  itself.  Man 
who  wills  as  life,  think,  and  think  well. 

Man  whose  power,  will,  is  life's  free  power,  man 
who  is  life  for  earth,  man  who  wills  for  life  while 
he  is  life  on  earth,  man  the  life  made  by  Will 
Higher,  wills  when  the  life  win  will  firm  for  the 
worth  purposed  by  God.  When  life  finds  firm, 
wise  free  will,  life  wins  the  worth  which  frees  from 
earth.  Wide  life  becomes  when  freed  from  earth, 
wide  its  vision,  full  and  firm  its  purpose  to  keep 
worthy.  Wide  the  worth  attained  finally  by  its 
free  will  and  purpose.  But  while  life  wills  there 
where  it  is  man  it  first  wins  firm  free  will.  Wise, 
firm,  free  will  wins  life's  worth  while  it  is  man, 
while  it  is.    Man  who  is  life,  think.     This  time  of 


152  Man,  The  Life  Free 

life  on  earth  will  firm,  wise  free  will,  may  be  won. 
The  man  who  thus  wishes  wins  that  will.  Think 
well  then,  you  mIio  use  to-day  life's  free  will.  To- 
day life  may  win  firm,  wise,  free  will.  This  time 
will  firm  would  win  freedom.  Then  think  well,  O 
man. 

Happy  the  life  who  wins  freedom.  Wise  the  life 
who  wills  for  life  worthy.  Wide  the  life  when 
freed,  high  its  purpose,  wise  its  will.  Keep  firm 
then,  you  who  would  win  freedom.  This  time  of 
life  on  earth  you,  life  immortal,  win  the  wider,  hap- 
pier life  if  you  thus  purpose.  Keep  firm,  man  who 
has  life  to  free,  keep  firm. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is,  wills  that  life  free  by  free  will  fulfill 
His  purpose.  Man  who  is  life  for  earth,  who  wills 
the  worth  of  life  on  earth  then,  finds  that  worth 
by  free  choice.  Man  willed  to  win  freedom  for  life, 
willed  free  will  his  own,  by  his  free  will  wins  the 
purposed  worth  of  life  on  earth.  Then  this  man 
may  win  the  worth  that  frees  life  by  his  will.  He 
was  willed  that  he  thus  use  it?  No,  his  free  will  he 
uses  for  worth  when  he  thus  chooses.  Life  free, 
made  free  by  Him  who  purposes  for  life  worth, 
wins  the  purposed  worth  when  life  thus  wishes. 
All  life  finally  wins  that  purposed  worth;  all  life 
fulfills  God's  purpose;  yet  this  life  wins  its  worth 
when  it  thus  chooses.    Free  will  made  life's  power 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose        153 

by  Him  who  made  life  finally  wins  for  life  its  worth 
for  wider  life,  and  life  willed  freedom  finds  worth 
for  freedom  by  its  own  free  will. 

Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  while  it  is  man; 
thus  life's  Maker  purposes.  Man  who  is  life  for 
earth  wins  by  his  life  worthy  wider  life  for  personal 
self  immortal.  Then  by  man's  free  will  life  per- 
sonal wins  wider,  fuller,  happier  life.  Think,  man 
who  wills  for  life  to-day.  Why  will  for  life  un- 
worthy? You  win  freed  life  when  you  will  well 
and  firmly  for  your  man's  life.  Think  well,  O 
man. 

When  life  wins  this  life  it  wins  that  which  it  is 
purposed  by  Will  Higher  to  win.  This  life  wills 
firmly,  for  life  won  firm  purpose  on  earth.  This 
life  wills  for  life  worthy  always,  for  that  firm  pur- 
pose which  keeps  life  worthy  was  won  while  life 
was  man.  While  life  is,  firm  purpose  is  help. 
While  life  wills  to  keep  worthy  it  wins  wider  and 
wider  life.  Think,  man  who  is  life  immortal. 
While  life  keeps  worthy  it  wins  wider  and  wider 
life.  Man  by  his  firm  purpose  wins  for  life  per- 
sonal its  first  wider  life.  Then,  firm  forever,  life 
wins  finally  worth  for  its  Maker's  presence.  This 
future  life  is  willed  by  God.  But  that  firm  purpose 
which  wins  this  future  must  be  won  while  life  is 
man.  Think  then,  man  who  is  life  immortal,  think 
well. 


154  Man,  The  Life  Free 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  which  He  made  worth 
won  by  itself.  Man,  the  life  on  earth,  finds  worth 
by  his  free  choice.  Life  which  is  by  Higher  Will 
made  free  fulfills  His  purpose  using  free  will. 
Would  this  mean  that  life  forced  to  worth  finds 
it?  No,  worth  purposed  by  Higher  Will  must  by 
free  will  be  won,  since  man  is  willed  that  way  to 
worth.  Then  life  for  which  worth  is  by  Higher 
Will  purposed  finds  that  worth  when  it  pleases. 
That  worth  which  life  must  find  life  finds  using 
free  will,  and  God's  purpose  is  fulfilled  by  life 
which  wills  free  to  will  as  it  wishes.  But  what  life 
wins  the  worth  which  fulfills  God's  purpose?  That 
life  who  wins  worth,  choosing  worth;  that  life  ful- 
fills the  purpose  of  God. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  worth  found 
by  its  own  free  will,  made  life  free.  He  wills  for 
life  which  he  made  free  will  its  own;  He  wills  for 
life  worth  won  by  itself;  His  purpose  free  will  ful- 
fills. Man,  the  life  personal,  using  will  wholly  free 
wins  that  worth  which  life  has  for  must  to  win. 
He  who  willed  life,  who  gives  free  will,  made  life 
who  wills  of  free  will  for  worth,  and  life  finds  the 
worth  it  must  find  by  free  will  its  own. 

Man  who  wills  of  free  will  fulfills  by  free  will  the 
purpose  for  his  life  of  Higher  Will.     Man  who 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose        155 

uses  free  will  for  his  worth  wins  finally  by  that 
free  will  the  worth  which  God  purposes  for  life  on 
earth.  God  purposes  that  life  free  win  wider  life; 
His  purpose  life  fulfills  using  the  power  which 
He  makes  life's  power,  free  will.  That  life  who 
wills  as  it  pleases  wins  worth  for  the  wider  life 
which  God  purposes.  Thus  all  lives  win  freedom. 
Man  wills  that  worth  which  frees  life  when  he 
wishes,  but  life  who  has  for  must  to  win  that  worth 
finally  fulfills  its  must.  God  wills,  and  all  that 
He  made  fulfills  His  will. 

Will  free,  life's  power,  man  uses  while  life  wills 
on  earth.  Then  free  will  which  man  uses  fulfills 
finally  God's  purpose  for  life  on  earth.  His  free 
will  man  uses  for  worth  when  he  thus  wishes.  Then 
life  fulfills  God's  purpose  when  the  man  thus 
wishes.  Free  life  is  while  it  wills,  free  forever  life 
is,  but  by  free  will  it  fulfills  God's  purpose  while 
it  is  man  and  forever.  Life  willed  being  by  Him 
who  made  all  that  is  beside  Himself  fulfills  by  free 
will,  willed  to  be  its  power  by  its  Maker,  His  pur- 
pose. Free  will,  made  life's  power  by  God,  fulfills 
His  purpose  for  life  forever.  Man  who  wills  for 
life,  think.  Why  wait  to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  God 
that  your  life  find  freedom?  Your  own  free  will 
wins  for  you,  the  life,  that  worth  which  brings  free- 
dom.   Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  worth,  Will 


156  Man,  The  Life  Free 

Higher  who  wills  that  life  find  the  purposed  worth 
of  free  will  its  own,  wills,  while  life  works  on  earth, 
that  work  teach  life.  Will  firm,  will  purposed  to 
be  firm  finally,  but  will  firm  found  by  life's  free 
purpose,  wins  hfe's  worth.  Wise  the  life  becomes 
when  taught  by  God's  teaching.  Wise  life  wins 
freedom  because  wise  life  wills  as  God  purposes. 
Would  this  life  who  is  man  now  become  wise?  The 
purposed  work  of  man  teaches  if  life  firmly  wills 
to  finish  it  well.  Each  life  finds  work  that  teaches 
if  it  thus  pleases.  When  will  firm  life  finds,  when 
firm  will  keeps  life  worthy,  then  life  fulfills  God's 
purpose.  Then  this  man  who  is  life  to-day  finds 
firm  will  to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  God  if  he  thus 
wishes.  Free  to  will  for  worth  or  unworthiness 
always,  but  taught  finally  by  the  work  and  life  of 
man  on  earth,  personal  life,  man's  life  of  self,  wins 
finally  by  free  will  wisely  and  firmly  used  the  wider 
life  which  God  purposes.  Think  well,  who  will  for 
life  to-day,  think  wisely.  Your  free  will  this  time 
well  and  wisely  used  will  win  freedom.  Man  who 
wills  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  wills  on  earth  as  man.  He  purposes  for 
life  while  it  is.  Then  man,  who  wills  using  the 
power  willed  to  him  by  his  Maker,  by  that  power 
fulfills  his  Maker's  purpose.  Life  who  fulfills  its 
Maker's  purpose  He  rewards  with  wider,  fuller, 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Ptirpose        157 

happier  life.  Will  for  life  worthy  to-day,  man  who 
would  be  wise.  You  fulfill  then  God's  purpose 
for  life  of  man.  Help  this  word  for  help  by  Thy 
blessing,  we  pray  Thee,  O  God. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  whose  purpose  life 
fulfills,  was  when  life  made  by  Him  was  not.  His 
purpose  life  fulfills  as  He  w^ills,  using  for  its  worth 
its  own  free  will.  Then  man  fulfills  that  purpose 
thus,  for  he  is  life  for  earth.  But  man  uses  free 
will  unworthily  many  times.  His  will  then  fulfills 
not  the  purpose  of  his  Maker.  Would  free  will 
forced  be  right  thought?  You  know  that  will  is 
free  who  have  will.  But  that  free  will  was  made 
your  power  by  life's  Maker  whose  purpose  life  ful- 
fills while  it  is  man.  You  may  fulfill  that  purpose 
and  win  life  wider.  Then  this  man  who  wills  for 
worth  when  he  thus  wishes  finds  his  life  freed  when 
he  thus  wills?  Yes,  for  life  was  willed  wider  life, 
willed  free  will,  and  will  made  life's  power  by  God 
wins  for  that  life  its  wider  life  when  man  wisely, 
uses  it.  Think  well,  man  who  would  find  life  higher. 
You  yourself,  when  you  thus  wish,  win  for  your 
life  its  freedom.    Think  well,  O  man. 

That  free  will  by  which  man  makes  his  life  wor- 
thy God  gives  to  life.  Man  wins  by  given  will  the 
purposed  worth  that  life  finds  on  earth.  His  wise 
free  will  makes  life  worthy  in  man.  His  wise  free 
purpose  keeps  life  worthy.     Then  that  which  by 


158  Man,  The  Life  Free 

God's  purpose  life  in  man  must  win  it  wins  through 
man's  wise  use  of  free  will  and  purpose.  That 
higher  life  purposed  for  life  by  God  life  wins  by 
man's  wise  use  of  Hfe's  free  will  and  purpose. 
Then  this  man  who  is  life  to-day  wins,  if  he  thus 
wishes,  that  worth  which  permits  to  life  the  higher 
life  of  freedom. 

Will  free,  life's  power,  man  has,  for  he  is  life  on 
earth.  Will  free,  life's  power,  man  has  by  which 
to  make  life  worthy  wider  life.  Will  free,  hfe's 
power,  man  has  by  the  will  of  life's  Maker.  Will 
free,  life's  power,  man  uses  for  life  worthy.  On 
earth  life  wins  freedom.  While  life  wills  as  man 
it  wins  the  worth  for  wider  life  purposed  by  God, 
life's  Maker.  Will  free,  life's  power,  life  uses 
while  life  wills  for  the  life  wider  purposed  by  God. 
Life  wills  in  man  many  times.  Will  for  life  wor- 
thy is  finally  won.  Life  for  whom  God  purposes 
wider  life  wins  the  worth  for  the  purposed  wider 
life  using  its  own  free  will.  Man,  the  life  on  earth, 
finally  wills  as  God  purposes.  While  life  wills  as 
man  life  worthy  is  surely  won.  Help  men  to  will 
well,  for  they  need  Thy  help,  God  who  made  life 
man,  we  pray  Thee. 

Man  who  Avills  his  worth  himself,  man  who  wills 
his  life  worthy  when  thus  he  wishes,  is  life  who  by 
God's  purpose  wins  that  life  worthy.  JMan  who  is 
life  personal  wins  by  his  free  will  the  wider  life  of 


Will  Free  Fulfills  God's  Purpose        159 

personal  self,  for  man  wills  the  life  worthy  that 
wins  that  wider  life.  Man  who  wills  for  himself 
wills  as  life  personal;  as  he  wills  life  wills;  his  life 
wins  worth  by  the  will  which  man  uses.  Then  the 
will  which  man  uses  will  win  for  life  personal  the 
wider  life  purposed  by  life's  Maker.  What  food 
for  thought  this!  Man,  who  wills  his  life  worthy 
when  thus  he  wishes,  by  thus  willing  wins  for  his 
life  immortal  far  wider  life  than  that  of  earth. 
Think  well  then,  man  who  is  life,  think  well. 


XIII 

WILL  HIGHER  RULES   LIFE   WHILE 

IT  IS 


WILL   HIGHER  RULES  LIFE    WHILE   IT   IS 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  life's  JNIaker,  wills  that 
life  on  earth  be  man.  His  will  that 
life  fulfills  while  it  is.  By  Him  life 
was  made  life.  His  will  governs  all 
life  that  wills.  He  gives  to  life  free  will  its  own. 
He  gives  to  life  free  purpose  its  own.  His  will  rules 
the  life  whom  He  made  free,  and  that  which  He 
purposes  for  life  the  life  fulfills  using  the  free 
powers  He  gives.  Man,  the  life  who  wills  and  pur- 
poses as  he  wishes,  while  he  lives  the  life  of  earth 
fulfills  the  purpose  of  God  for  his  life.  Then,  while 
life  wills  as  man,  by  the  free  will  and  purpose  which 
man  uses  life  wins  the  wider  life  purposed  for  im- 
mortal self  when  life  was  by  Will  Higher  made. 
Will  Higher  wills;  that  which  He  made  He  gov- 
erns while  it  is. 

Wilherforce. 

Will  Higher  made  life  man,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is  man,  purposes  for  life  when  it  has  found 

163 


164  Man,  The  Life  Free 

freedom  from  earth,  and  to  eternity  He  purposes 
for  the  life  for  whom  He  willed  free  will.  Has 
the  word  helped  your  thought,  men  who  read? 
Will  Higher  was  Life  when  the  life  whom  He 
made  was  not.  But  for  that  life  His  eternal  pur- 
pose is  its  must.  While  life  wills  using  for  worth 
the  free  will  He  gives,  that  life  fulfills  His  purpose. 
Will  free  fulfills  for  life  finite  the  purpose  of  Life 
Infinite. 

The  will  which  God  makes  free  fulfills  His  pur- 
pose. Life  while  it  wills  in  man  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose that  it  win  worth,  freely  willing,  for  life 
higher.  No  life  fails  to  win  that  worth.  God's 
purpose  for  life  the  life  fulfills  by  its  free  will. 
All  lives  fulfill  finally,  and  fulfill  by  their  own  free 
will,  the  higher  purpose  of  God.  Man  lives  the  life 
of  earth.  His  purpose  will  win  the  worth  that 
God  purposes  for  life  on  earth.  Wise  life  becomes 
while  it  is  man.  That  life  who,  willing  wisely  by 
its  free  will,  wins  worth,  thus  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  all  that  is,  wills  for 
life  worth  won  by  free  will  its  own.  Life  purposed 
worth,  made  free,  wins  that  worth  using  free  will. 
God  wills  for  life  will  firm,  purpose  firm.  Life 
finds  that  firm  will,  finds  that  firm  purpose  finally, 
for  life  obeys  the  will  of  its  Maker  surely.  That 
will  which  God  makes  free  fulfills  finally  His  pur- 


Will  Higher  Rules  Life  While  It  Is     165 

pose.  Man  wills  as  he  wishes,  life  wills  of  free  will, 
but  taught  life  wills  as  its  Wilier  purposes  finally. 
Taught  wise  use  of  free  will,  taught  wisdom  by 
man's  work  and  life,  taught  wise  free  purpose,  per- 
sonal self,  life  willed  free  will  and  purpose  its  own, 
by  its  own  free  will  fulfills  its  Maker's  purpose. 
When  life  free  wills  well,  firmly  purposing  to  keep 
worthy,  working  well  the  work  that  God  purposes 
as  teaching,  it  wins  the  wider  life  purposed  by  its 
Maker  when  He  willed  life  into  being. 

That  which  men  name  the  Universe  is  made  the 
Universe  by  the  wilLof  God.  By  His  will  life 
works  as  man.  By  His  will  life  finishes  the  work 
of  earth  and  finds  higher  life.  Will  Higher  wills 
for  life  free  powers  for  help.  By  the  powers  that 
He  wills  to  life  life  fulfills  His  purpose.  Will 
Higher  was  when  life  finite  was  not.  His  will  all 
that  He  made  fulfills.  Omnipotent,  He  wills  for 
life.  His  purpose  the  life  fulfills  as  He  wills. 
What  help  for  men  here!  What  food  for  thought 
here!  Will  Higher  governs  that  which  He  made 
forever. 


XIV 

WILL  HIGHER  WILLS;  LIFE  MADE 
FREE  FULFILLS  HIS  PURPOSE 


WILL  HIGHER  WILLS  *,  LIFE  MADE  FREE  FULFILLS  HIS 

PURPOSE 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WE  who  live  wider  life  were  men.  We 
who  tell  this  thought  for  men  were 
men.  This  life  remembers  its  earth 
life.  We  remember  what  was  help 
in  man's  life,  what  was  harm.  Then  this  life  has 
learned  what  men  need  to  know,  what  helps  and 
what  harms  the  life  while  it  is  man.  We  who  were 
men,  then,  help  men  by  tellfng  what  we  think  men 
need. 

Man  has  life  personal,  life  free,  for  personal  life 
is  necessarily  free.  Man  is  life  personal  who  lives 
where  life  personal  is  taught  wisdom  which  it  will 
need  in  wider  life.  Then  man,  free  personal  life, 
learns  by  the  life  of  earth  that  which  wider  life  finds 
help.  Think,  who  live  man's  life.  We  who  live 
the  higher  life  of  freedom  from  earth  tell  for  help 
that  thought  which  men  need. 

Will  Higher  was  when  life  made  by  Him  was 
not.  His  purpose  follows  that  life  to  eternity.  The 
life  willed  by  Him  worth  finds  that  worth  by  the 
way  He  wills,  wise  use  of  the  free  will  He  makes 
that  life's  power.     He  who  made  life  purposes  for 

169 


170  3Ia7h  The  Life  Free 

that  life  while  that  life  wills  using  free  will.  Man 
wills  his  worth  using  life's  free  power.  INIan  finds 
that  firm  purpose  which  Will  Higher  purposes  that 
life  find  on  earth.  Will  Higher  wills;  that  which 
He  made  fulfills  His  will.  All  lives  win  the  life 
freed.  While  life  is  man  on  earth  it  fulfills  by  His 
way  God's  purpose.  Man  who  wills  of  free  will, 
that  power  willed  for  life  to  be  its  power  forever, 
wins  that  worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  for 
life  while  it  is  on  earth.  Will  free  wins  for  life  the 
worth  purposed  by  life's  IVIaker. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  worth 
won  by  free  will  and  purpose.  That  worth  fits  life 
for  higher,  worthier  life  beyond  earth.  By  the 
Higher  Purpose  of  life's  Maker  life  attains  that 
worth  on  earth.  Then  life  attains  that  worth  of 
man's  free  will  and  purpose.  But  worth  that  life 
thus  attains  is  purposed  worth.  Then  life  free  at- 
tains worth  purposed  by  Higher  Will.  Yes;  for 
life  Higher  Will  purposes  wider  life  won  by  its 
free  will  and  purpose,  and  life  who  lives  on  earth 
as  man  finally  attains  by  free  purpose  its  own  that 
higher  life  which  God  purposes.  The  life  free  wins 
of  free  will  and  purpose  the  worth  which  wins 
higher  life.  God  wills,  and  life  made  by  Him  ful- 
fills His  will.  All  lives  fulfill  His  will;  all  lives 
find  worth  while  life  wills  as  man  that  wins  the 
higher  life  purposed  by  God. 


Will  Higher  Wills  171 

Will  Higher  purijoses  for  life  that  He  made 
while  that  life  is.  Then  life  willed  worth  must  find 
that  worth,  for  God's  purpose  is  fulfilled  by  all  that 
He  made.  Free  will  life  is  given;  by  free  will  life 
wins  its  worth;  wise  free  will,  taught  by  God's 
teaching,  fulfills  His  purpose  for  life. 

Will  Higher,  w^io  purposes  for  life  while  it  is, 
made  life  for  earth  man,  willed  to  life  personal 
powers,  willed  that  life  be  free,  willed  for  life  worth 
won  by  itself.  Found  there  reconciliation  between 
Higher  Will  and  man's  free  will.  Life  willed 
worth  finds  worth  finally.  Life  who  wills  for  life 
worthy  thus  fulfills  God's  purpose.  Life  who  wills 
for  life  unworthy  waits  to  fulfill  that  purpose. 
While  life  wills  for  itself  the  higher  purpose  of  its 
Maker  it  must  fulfill.  All  life  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose; all  life  is  finally  taught  wise  use  of  free  will. 
Man  who  wills  for  life  worthy  wins  life  wider  for 
his  personal  self;  man  who  wills  for  life  unworthy 
wins  life  of  earth  again.  Then  think,  who  would 
win  life  wider.  Wise  use  of  your  free  will  wins  it. 
Think  well,  O  man. 

That  life  win  by  free  will  the  worth  purposed  by 
God  He  wills ;  that  life  will  for  life  worthy  while  it 
is  man  He  wills ;  that  life  win  freedom  by  will  free 
He  wills ;  that  life  win  wider  and  wider  life  willing 
of  free  will  He  wills.  Man  is  life  on  earth.  Then 
man  willing  as  life  wins  life's  first  worth,  for  that 


172  Man,  The  Life  Free 

which  man  wills  life  wills.  But,  being  free,  man 
wills  for  life  worthy  when  he  thus  wishes.  Then  the 
will  of  God  is  fulfilled  by  life  while  it  is  man  when 
the  man  wishes.  Higher  will  of  man's  Maker  will 
be  fulfilled  by  man  of  free  will,  and  life  who  wills 
for  life  worthy  while  it  is  man  thus  fulfills  God's 
will. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is  man  that  it  attain  worth  for  fuller  life. 
That  worth  will  be  won  by  life  while  it  is  man,  and 
God's  purpose  will  be  fulfilled  by  that  life  whom 
He  made  free.  Yet  while  life  is  it  wills  using  free 
will.  Then  while  life  is  that  worth  which  Higher 
Will  purposes  is  won  by  use  of  life's  free  will.  All 
lives  win  worth  finally;  each  life  who  is  man  wins 
finally  worth  for  higher  life.  JNIan,  the  life,  ful- 
fills the  purpose  of  his  Maker,  God. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  rules  the  life  whom 
He  makes  man  for  earth  while  that  life  is.  His 
purpose  follows  that  life  while  it  is.  Man,  the  free 
personal  life,  wills  for  life  wider  on  earth,  purposed 
thus  to  will,  yet  life  is  made  free  of  will.  Made 
life  fulfills  by  the  willed  power,  free  will,  the  pur- 
pose for  it  of  its  Maker.  Willed  life,  willed  power 
free  will,  willed  free  purpose,  all  fulfill  the  higher 
purpose  of  Him  who  made  life.  For  life  worthy 
the  life  wills  finally,  willed  thus  to  will,  yet  life  wills 
always  of  free  will.     That  which  life  wills  finally 


Will  Higher  Wills  173 

using  free  will  life's  Maker  purposes  that  it  thus 
will.  For  life  free  He  wills  life  wider  won  through 
wise  use  of  its  own  free  will  and  purpose.  Then 
life  free  fulfills  God's  will ;  that  free  will  which  God 
gives  fulfills  His  will;  that  free  purpose  which  He 
gives  fulfills  His  purpose.  We  who  live  wider  life 
hold  firm  the  purpose  for  life  worthy  found  while 
life  was  man.  That  which  life  free  wills  fulfills 
God's  purpose  that  life  win  wider  and  wider  life. 
While  life  is  the  free  will  which  God  gives  fulfills 
for  life  His  purpose.  We,  the  lives  freed,  won  this 
life  while  life  was  man.  We,  freed  lives,  will  win 
life  still  higher  by  the  firm  purpose  which  life  won 
while  it  was  man.  Think  what  we  tell.  We  who 
live  the  wider  life  won  it  using  free  will  and  pur- 
pose our  own.  Then,  life  who  would  win  this  happy 
life,  firmly  will  to-day,  to-morrow,  each  day  of 
man's  life,  that  life  be  worthy. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  that  He 
made,  wills  for  life  worth  won  of  its  free  choice. 
Man,  who  wills  the  worth  of  life  on  earth,  wills  that 
worth  using  free  choice.  Man,  who  lives  the  life 
of  earth,  wills  for  that  life  and  for  higher  life  to 
follow  life  on  earth  when  by  his  free  will  he  makes 
life  worthy.  His  will  who  rules  life  is  by  life  free 
fulfilled.  That  worth  which  He  purposes  for  life 
life  wins  by  wise  use  of  the  power  He  gives,  free 
will.    Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day  may,  if  thus 


174  Man,  The  Life  Free 

this  man  chooses,  win  the  worth  purposed  for  hfe 
on  earth.    Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher,  man's  JNIaker,  life's  Wilier,  was 
when  life  whom  He  made  was  not.  His  will  made 
that  which  men  call  the  Universe.  His  will  rules  all 
that  is.  By  His  will  man,  His  creature,  wills  for 
that  wider  life  which  He  purposes  for  immortal 
life.  His  purpose  follows  life  whom  He  made 
while  it  is.  Life  full  with  worth  He  wills  for  life 
that  He  made  immortal,  life  worthy  His  pres- 
ence finally.  The  life  who  is  man  wins  that  worth 
finally.  The  life  who  is  this  man  wins  that  worth. 
Yet  life  free  wills  as  it  wishes.  The  Purpose  who 
made  life  wills  for  life  free  will,  and  by  will  made 
by  God  free  life  fulfills  His  purpose. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  life  made 
by  Him  worth  that  permits  wider  life.  His  will 
life  fulfills  willing  of  free  will.  No  life  fails  to  win 
by  free  will  the  wider  life  purposed  by  God.  Then 
this  life  when  it  wills  firmly  for  life  worthy  wins 
wider  life,  but  will  unworthily  used  by  this  life  wins 
but  life  on  earth  again.  Then,  man  who  is  life, 
think.  What  will  have  you,  that  will  which  wins 
wider  life,  or  that  will  which  wins  man's  life  again? 
Think  well,  man  who  is  free,  think  well. 

INIan  who  lives  working  the  work  purposed  to 
teach  life,  man  who  works  for  both  life  of  earth  and 
life  wider,  man  who  lives  his  life  willing  for  that 


Will  Higher  Wills  175 

which  he  wishes,  is  Hfe  who  by  God's  purpose  wins 
higher,  fuller  life.  Willing  its  worth  itself  life  wins 
that  higher  life.  Willing  while  it  is  man  that  which 
wins  the  purposed  higher  life,  the  personal  worth 
of  man,  life  willed  freedom  wins  freedom.  When 
life  who  wills  using  free  will  uses  that  will  for 
life  worthy,  life  thus  fulfills  the  purpose  of  Will 
Higher  for  life  on  earth.  Will  Higher  purposes 
that  life  free  win,  while  it  is  man,  the  life  wider 
which  He  purposed  when  He  made  life.  Well 
must  man  will,  well  for  life  must  man  purpose  to 
fulfill  God's  purpose.  Then  think,  who  would  this 
time  on  earth  win  the  wider  life  of  freedom.  Will 
for  life  worthy  firmly,  purpose  for  life  worthy 
firmly;  then  life  can  this  time  wan  fuller,  happier 
life.  Think  well  then,  man  who  would  win  free- 
dom, think  well. 

Man,  life  personal,  wills  using  free  will;  man, 
life  immortal,  is  purposed  will  for  life  worthy;  life 
worthy,  then,  man  wins  by  free  will.  But  life  free 
wills  worth  when  it  thus  chooses.  Then  life,  while 
it  wills  as  man,  chooses  will  for  life  worthy.  Man, 
being  free,  wills  by  his  free  will  the  worth  which 
life  by  God's  purpose  must  will.  But  free  will  is 
bound  then.  No,  free  will  life  has  from  its  Maker, 
God.  What  from  this  follows?  Man,  while  life  is 
on  earth,  finally  wills  for  life  worthy ;  his  free  choice 
makes  life  worthy;  life  willed  worth  by  God  finds 


176  Man,  The  Life  Free 

that  worth  using  free  will  its  own.  What  worth 
purposes  life's  Maker  for  the  life  made  by  Hun? 
Worth  for  life  wider,  worth  growing  while  life 
lasts,  worth  finally  for  His  presence.  That  worth 
while  life  wills  using  free  will  it  wins.  Man,  who 
is  life  immortal,  wins  for  life  its  first  worth,  the 
worth  which  brings  first  life  wider.  Will  free  life 
uses  then  for  that  worth  which  finally  fits  life  for 
its  Maker's  presence.  What  food  for  thought,  O 
man,  this  will  give  you.    Think  upon  it  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  life's  Wilier,  wills 
for  life  whom  He  made  while  that  life  is.  Man,  the 
life  on  earth,  fulfills  His  will.  Life  when  freed 
fulfills  His  will.  No  life  may  for  always  evade  ful- 
filling the  will  of  its  Maker.  Will  Higher  was 
when  life  made  by  Him  was  not.  Eternal  Will, 
Omnipotent  Purpose  He  is.  Will  Higher  rules 
ail  that  is  beside  Himself. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  wills  for  life  for- 
ever, purposes  for  life  whom  He  made  free  worth 
far  wider  than  that  of  earth.  Man,  life  personal, 
wills  of  his  free  will  that  worth  which  permits  wider 
life.  Man,  life  personal,  wills  as  life  who  must 
finally  fulfill  God's  purpose.  When  by  man's  free 
will  life  attains  worth  for  wider  life,  the  will  still  is 
free.  For  life  worthy  life  still  wills  of  free  choice. 
Will  free  wins  life's  worth  forever.  By  will  free 
life  finally  wins  that  worth  which  God  purposes, 


Will  Higher  Wills  177 

worth  for  His  presence.  Man  by  his  free  will  wins 
for  life  its  first  worth;  man  by  his  free  will  wins 
for  life  its  first  wider  life.  What  food  for  thought 
we  give  you,  O  men.  Man  wins  the  first  worth  of 
life  personal,  life  immortal.  His  free  will  makes 
life  worthy  wider  life  than  that  of  earth.  When 
life  has  won  that  worth  which  frees  from  earth,  it 
wins  by  the  free  will  made  firm  by  man  the  wider 
worth  which  fits  it  for  God's  presence.  Think 
well,  man  who  is  life,  think  well. 

Man  wills  his  worth  of  life  himself,  though  God 
purposes  that  he,  as  life,  find  worth.  Man's  will, 
being  free,  wins  that  worth  which  life  while  it  is 
man  is  purposed  to  find.  Then  will  free,  man's 
power,  wins  for  life  that  worth  which  Will  Higher 
purposed  when  He  made  life  man.  Man  who  wills 
his  worth  by  free  will  is  yet  life  who  fulfills  the  pur- 
pose of  Will  Higher.  Man  is  life  on  earth.  Then 
man,  the  life  who  wills  as  he  wishes,  wills  finally 
that  which  life's  Wilier  purposes.  When  by  life's 
will  free  man  wins  that  worth  which  personal  life 
must  by  God's  purpose  find  on  earth.  Will  Higher 
wills  for  life  higher  personal  worth.  Yet  while  life 
is  will  is  wholly  free.  Will  of  life  man  uses,  will 
that  life  uses  while  it  is.  Life  free,  man's  immor- 
tal self,  fulfills  by  wise  use  of  the  power  which  God 
gives  His  purpose. 


178  3Ian.  The  Life  Free 

Wilherforce. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  life  will  finally  ful- 
fill, made  life  free.  His  purpose  life  fulfills 
through  the  means  He  provides.  Life  personal  man 
is  made.  Life  who  wills  as  man  is  life  immortal. 
Wise  free  will,  free  will  taught  wisdom  by  the 
teaching  of  life  where  man  wills  and  works,  makes 
life  immortal  worthy  freedom  from  man  and  earth. 
That  wise  free  will  man  finds  when  he  thus  chooses. 
Then  life  free,  taught  wisdom  by  God's  teaching, 
wins  the  wider  life  which  by  Him  was  purposed 
when  His  will  made  life. 

That  life  win  worth  for  higher  life  while  it  is 
man  He  who  wills  for  life  forever  purposes;  that 
life  win  worth  by  its  free  will  He  purposes.  When 
free  life  wills  as  He  purposes  free  life  fulfills  the 
will  of  its  Maker.  Man,  who  is  life  on  earth,  wins 
by  his  free  will  the  worth  for  the  wider  life  pur- 
posed for  personal  self  by  life's  Maker.  What  food 
for  thought  we  give  you,  O  men.  Think  well,  for 
then  j^ou  will  profit  by  our  word. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  whom  He 
made  free,  wills  that  wider  life  be  won  by  life's  own 
free  will.  His  purpose  life  free  fulfills.  JNlan,  life 
of  personal  self,  man  who  is  free  to  will  worth  or 
unworthiness,  while  he  wills  for  life  personal  wins 
the  worth  for  that  wider  life  purposed  by  God. 


Will  Higher  Wilh  179 

IVIan,  life  free,  wins  wider  life  willing  life's  worth 
himself. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  wills  of  free  will.  That  worth  which  He 
wills  the  life  finds.  When  by  His  teaching  life  be- 
comes wise,  it  fulfills  by  free  will  His  purpose. 
JNIan,  then,  wills  for  life  the  worth  which  brings 
wider  life,  for  he  wins  finally  that  worth  which  life 
on  earth  is  by  God  willed  to  find.  But  life  in  man, 
being  free,  wins  that  worth  when  thus  it  chooses. 
Why  was  life  willed  free  will?  That  it  win  its 
worth  itself.  Why  was  man  made  free?  That  his 
free  will,  life's  free  w411  it  is,  win  for  life  the  worth 
which  God  purposes  for  life  on  earth.  Think  well, 
who  would  win  for  life  immortal  wider  life,  think 
well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  JNIaker,  purposes  for  man, 
the  life  made  by  Him,  that  by  free  will  he  make 
life  immortal  worthy  higlier  life.  Will  free,  then, 
wins  by  man's  wise  use  freedom  from  earth  for  per- 
sonal life.  When  man  freely  willing  makes  his 
life  worthy,  personal  self,  man's  immortal  life,  wins 
wider,  fuller  life.  Well  has  life  willed  when  it  wins 
this  life,  well  has  it  purposed.  Well  then  must 
man  will  and  purpose  to  win  life  freed. 

That  free  will  by  which  life  finds  worth  is,  for 
life  on  earth,  man's  free  will.  Then  this  life  who 
is  this  man  finds  worth  that  life's  INIaker  purposes 


180  Man,  The  Life  Free 

by  man's  use  of  free  will.  That  life  who  finds  will 
the  help  that  God  purposes  finds  life  wider.  When 
life  freely  willing  makes  itself  worthy  freedom,  life 
has  fulfilled  God's  will  for  life  on  earth.  Then  why 
postpone  finding  worth,  you  who  will  for  life? 
Why  wait  to  will  firmly  for  life  worthy?  Your 
will  wins  for  your  life  the  freedom  God  wills  when 
you  wisely  use  it.  Think  well  then,  man  who  is  life, 
think  well. 

Man  who  is  life  personal,  who  wills  for  his  life 
worthy  when  he  wishes,  man,  life  immortal  who 
finds  life  higher  by  God's  purpose,  wins  for  life 
immortal  the  worth  for  higher  life  using  that  free 
will  which  God  makes  his  power.  Life  wins  higher 
life  by  man's  free  will.  Then  this  life  who  is  man 
to-day  wins  higher  life  if  this  man  wills  for  life 
worthy.  Then  this  life  who  is  this  man  wins  life 
higher  if  this  man  chooses.  Think,  man  who  wills 
for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that  while 
life  wills  on  earth  that  worth  which  permits  wider 
life  be  found.  While  life  wills  as  man  it  finds  that 
worth  surely,  for  life  finds  that  worth  by  God's 
purpose.  But  life,  being  free,  may  postpone  by 
free  choice  winning  that  worth.  Then  Will  Higher 
exacts  penalty.  What  penalty?  Man's  life  again, 
man's  work  for  teaching  again,  man's  little  life 
again.    For  life  man  wills  well  when  his  will  is  for 


Will  Higher  Wills  181 

life  worthy.  Will  free  wins  life  wider  when  the 
man  wishes.  You  who  will  for  life,  remember  that 
you  win  by  your  free  will,  if  you  thus  wish,  the 
higher  life  of  freedom. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  that  while 
life  is  man  it  win  the  w^orth  for  wider  life.  Willing 
for  worth  itself  life  wins  that  worth.  Then  this  life 
who  is  man  to-day  wins  wider  life  if  this  man  wills 
for  life  worthy.  Have  our  words  helped  the  man 
who  reads?  The  help  he  finds  depends  on  himself. 
Think  well,  man  who  has  life  to  free,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  wills  for  life  while 
it  is  man  that  worth  be  found  by  life's  free  will 
and  purpose.  His  purpose  that  which  He  made 
fulfills.  Man,  the  free  life,  wins  finally  that  worth 
which  He  who  made  life  man  purposes.  While  life 
is  God  purposes  for  it.  While  life  wills  using  free 
will  given  by  God  it  wins  the  worth  which  He  pur- 
poses it  shall  win.  Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day 
fulfills  God's  purpose  finally,  yet  this  man  wills 
for  worth  when  he  thus  pleases.  But  this  man  is 
life  who  is  made  to  find  worth  by  free  will  its  own. 
Then  this  life  who  wills  as  this  man  fulfills  God's 
purpose  if  this  man  thus  wishes.  Think  what  we 
tell  you,  man  who  is  life,  think  well. 

Will  free  life  uses  while  it  wills  as  man  and  for- 
ever. Man,  who  is  life  for  earth,  wins  by  his  will 
free  the  worth  that  permits  for  life  personal  its 


182  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

wider  life.  Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  by  God's 
purpose.  Every  life  finds  that  will.  But  the  life 
while  it  is  man,  being  free,  wills  for  that  life  worthy 
when  the  man  thus  chooses.  Then  this  man  who 
wills  for  life  may  win  that  worth  which  brings  fuller 
life.  But  will  this  man  choose  that  worth?  Life 
finally  wins  that  worth,  but  would  you  think  life 
may  will  for  unworthiness,  and  be  freed,  O  man? 
Think  well,  for  then  life  profits  by  our  word. 

Purpose  Higher,  purpose  of  Him  who  made  all 
beside  Himself,  wills  for  life  its  free  will.  Life 
free  fulfills  by  free  will  His  purpose.  Will  for  life 
worthy  life  finally  finds,  for  thus  purposes  Higher 
Will ;  yet  life  free  finds  that  will  for  life  worthy  it- 
self. When  free  will  used  wisely  wins  for  life  the 
worth  purposed  by  Will  Higher  life  finds  wider 
life.  Man,  who  is  life  while  life  wills  on  earth,  finds 
will  for  life  worthy,  then,  by  God's  purj^ose,  and 
that  which  life  free  finally  wills  for  itself  fulfills 
the  higher  purpose  of  life's  Maker.  This  man  who 
is  life  to-day  may  will  unworthily,  but  life  while  it 
is  man  wins  that  will  for  life  worthy  which  Higher 
Purpose  wills.  When  depends  on  man's  own  wish. 
Think  then,  man  who  is  life.  Will  you  this  time 
win  that  will  for  life  worthy?  Man  has  free  will, 
but  life  finally  wins  freedom.  This  man,  then,  may 
by  his  will  for  life  worthy  win  freedom  for  his  im- 
mortal self. 


Will  Higher  Wills  183 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  the  life  whom  He 
made,  wills  that  life  by  free  will  win  worth  for 
wider  life.  He  purposes  then  for  life  made  free. 
His  purpose  life  free  fulfills  when  that  worth  it 
finds  willing  itself.  But  free  life  wills  well  or 
weakly.  When  it  wills  well  life  wins  higher  life, 
when  it  wills  unworthily  life  wins  but  further  life  in 
man.  Then  this  man  who  is  life  to-day  wills 
whether  life  immortal  find  higher  life  or  life  of  man 
once  more.  What  would  this  man  wish  ?  His  will 
free  wins  that  which  he  wishes.  Think  then,  man 
who  wills  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  ^laker,  purposes  that  while 
life  is  man  it  find  will  for  life  worthy.  No  life  may 
will  for  life  unworthy  always.  The  purpose  of 
Him  who  rules  life  forbids  that  life  will  unworthily 
always.  But  life  is  free  w^iile  it  is.  Then  life  by 
purpose  of  Him  who  made  it  free  wills  for  life  wor- 
thy while  it  is  man.  What  will  uses  life  ?  Free  will 
always.  What  worth  wins  life?  Worth  piu'posed 
by  God.  Will  free,  then,  wins  for  life  who  is  by 
its  Maker  purposed  w^orth  that  worth.  Think  then, 
man  who  wills  for  life  immortal.  Till  will  free  life 
uses  for  worth  Will  Higher  wills  for  it  man's  life. 
When  will  free  life  uses  as  He  purposes  it  must 
finally  He, wills  for  life  wider,  fuller  life.  Then 
think  what  you  must  will,  man  who  is  life,  if  you 
wish  wider  life.     Think  well,  O  man. 


184  Man,  The  Life  Free 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  the  life 
whom  He  made  while  that  life  is.  Man,  who  is 
that  life,  wills  for  his  worth  by  his  free  will.  Man, 
who  is  that  life,  wills  that  worth  which  God  pur- 
poses for  that  life  while  it  wills  on  earth.  Man, 
who  is  that  life,  wins  by  his  worth  the  wider  life 
purposed  by  God  for  that  life.  When  life  finds 
worth  as  man  He  who  purposes  for  life  forever 
frees  that  life  from  man  and  earth.  His  purpose 
follows  that  life  while  it  wins  personal  worth  both 
on  earth  and  in  wider  life.  Then  wider  life  pur- 
posed by  life's  Maker,  worth  growing  wider  to 
immortality,  worth  far  wider  than  life  itself 
comprehends  while  it  is  man,  is  won  by  life 
free.  What  food  for  thought  we  give  you,  O 
men.  Think  upon  it  well.  You,  the  life,  win 
finally  by  will  free,  the  will  that  you,  the  man, 
use  to-day,  that  life  wider,  that  worth  far  wider 
than  man  may  comprehend.  What  thought  for 
help  this!  You  who  will  for  life,  think  upon  it 
well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that  will 
free  win  life's  worth  while  life  is.  Man  is  the  life 
on  earth.  His  will,  then,  wins  the  worth  of  life 
on  earth.  What  for  life  purposes  its  ISIaker? 
Wider  life,  fuller  worth,  worth  for  His  presence 
finally.  May  life  win  that  worth  by  its  own  free 
will?     Only  thus  may  life  made  win  that  worth. 


Will  Higher  Wills  185 

Life  free  wins  finally  by  wise  use  of  the  will  God 
makes  life's  power,  free  will  that  is,  worth  for  His 
presence.  This  word  helps  the  man  who  will  think. 
We  tell  that  life  who  on  earth  is  man,  this  life  who 
is  this  man,  may,  and  will  finally  win  worth  for 
God's  presence.  But  life  for  whom  that  worth  is 
purposed  wins  that  worth  by  its  free  will.  Thought 
helpful,  man  who  is  life. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that  by  free 
purpose  its  own  life  find  that  worth  which  frees  life 
from  earth.  He  purposes,  too,  that  life  find  worth 
for  His  presence  by  the  free  purpose  which  He 
wills  to  life.  Man,  who  is  life  while  it  wills  on 
earth,  wins  for  life  its  first  worth.  That  worth  fits 
life  for  wider  life  beyond  earth.  Then  by  the  pur- 
pose which  won  for  life  its  freedom  life  wins  its 
worth  for  God's  presence.  When  life  finds  firm 
purpose  as  man  it  takes  to  wider  life  firm  purpose. 
That  firm  purpose  wins  life's  worth  forever.  Think 
what  I  tell,  man  who  purposes  to-day  for  life. 
Your  firm  purpose  well  and  wisely  used  wins  for 
life  personal  its  first  wider  life.  Then  that  firm 
purpose  life  holds  him  forever.  What  food  for 
thought,  O  men.  What  life  finds  freedom?  This 
life,  if  this  man  thus  purposes.  What  life  wins 
worth  for  God's  presence?  All  lives  win  that 
worth,  thank  God!  But  all  lives  must  find  firm 
purpose  for  life  worthy  on  earth.     While  life  is 


186  Man,  The  Life  Free 

man,  then,  firm  purpose  must  be  won  if  life  would 
be  freed.  What  for  life  purposes  its  Maker? 
Worth  for  His  presence  won  by  its  own  firm  pur- 
pose, and  life  first  finds  firm  purpose  on  earth  as 
man.  Then,  firm  forever,  life  wins  worth  for  God's 
presence. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Wilier,  purposes  for  life  far 
higher  worth  than  it  finds  while  it  is  man  on  earth. 
What  food  for  thought  here,  man  v/ho  is  life  im- 
mortal! Life  who  wills  freely  wins  the  higher  life 
which  God  purposes  using  free  choice  whether 
worth  be  found  or  unworthiness.  Then  life  who 
Mdlls  that  it  find  worth  fulfills  God's  purpose.  But 
when  life  wills  unworthily  what  for  life  wills  its 
JMaker?  Work  of  man  again,  life  on  earth  again. 
Keincarnation  God  wills  for  life  who  needs  the 
teaching  which  He  wills  for  life  while  it  is  man, 
reincarnation  that  helps  life,  for  by  further  life 
of  man  life  purposed  wise  use  of  free  will  learns 
that  wise  use.  God  wills  that  teaching  for  all  lives. 
Then  when  by  life's  free  will  wisely  used  life  per- 
sonal wins  the  worth  God  purposes.  He  frees  that 
life  forever  from  man  and  earth.  What  will  has 
the  man  who  is  life  to-day  ?  That  thought  will  help 
the  man  who  wishes  life  worthy. 

Help  this  word  for  help  by  Thy  blessing,  we 
pray  Thee,  O  God. 


Um  Higher  Wills  187 


Miltiades. 


Will  Higlier,  who  wills  for  life  while  it  is,  made 
life  for  earth  man.  His  purpose  life  while  it  is  ful- 
fills. His  purpose  man  fulfills  then.  While  life 
wills  it  wills  of  free  will,  for  God  made  life  free. 
His  purpose  life  fulfills,  then,  willing  for  worth  by 
free  will.  Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that 
life  while  it  wills  as  man  win  worth  for  wider,  fuller 
life.  Then  life  who  wills  using  free  will  wins  worth 
while  it  is  man  for  wider  life.  For  both  man  who 
is  life  and  for  life  freed  the  Higher  Will  purposes. 
Then  man  has  Higher  Purpose  for  his  must?  Xo, 
life  personal  for  whom  Higher  Will  purposes  has 
that  Higher  Purpose  to  fulfill.  But  while  life  wills 
on  earth  it  wills  as  man.  Then  life  who  has  God's 
purpose  to  fulfill  forever  has  while  it  is  man  His 
purpose  to  fulfill.  But  man  wills  freely,  choosing 
that  which  he  wishes.  Yes,  for  life  while  it  is  man 
and  while  it  is  God  made  free.  Yet,  taught  by  the 
work  of  man,  by  the  life  of  man,  wisdom  in  use 
of  free  will,  life  finally  chooses  to  will  that  which 
God  purposes.  Will  Higher  purposes  that  life 
while  it  wills  as  man  find  worth  for  higher  life. 
INIan  himself  wills  that  worth,  for  life  while  it  is 
on  earth  is  man.  But  what  has  life  to  purpose  to 
fulfill  its  must?  Worth  won  by  free  will,  worth 
won  by  man  as  life.     Then  for  life  Will  Higher 


188  Man,  The  Life  Free 

purposes  wider  life  won  by  the  free  will  of  this 
man?  No,  this  man  chooses  perhaps  will  unwor- 
thy. Then  this  life  works  again  man's  work,  and 
this  life  who  wills  unworthily  wins  not  the  higher 
life.  What  food  for  thought  here  for  men!  We 
tell  that  life  while  it  wills  as  man  finds  the  worth 
for  the  wider  life  which  God  purposes;  that  man 
wins  that  worth  of  free  will  his  own ;  that  this  man 
wins  that  worth  if  thus  he  chooses.  Think,  man 
who  has  life  to  free,  think  wisely. 

Man,  the  life  free,  wins  worth  for  wider  life  when 
he  thus  wishes.  But  life  must  finally  win  that 
worth ;  God  thus  wills.  Free  will  He  makes  man's 
will,  and  life  free  finally  wills  for  worth  using  free 
w^ill.  That  which  Higher  Will  purposes  life  free 
fulfills  using  the  free  will  He  gives.  Then  this  life, 
this  life  who  is  man  to-day,  may  win  the  worth 
which  God  purposes.  Life  wins  freedom  when  by 
man's  free  will  it  becomes  worthy.  Think  well, 
man  who  has  life  to  free,  think  well. 

Will  for  life  worthy  man  finds  through  his  wish 
to  find  it.  Will  for  life  worthy  life  finds  as  man 
by  God's  purpose.  But  life  wills  for  worth  freely. 
Then  life  while  it  wills  as  man  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose, and  wins  worth  for  higher,  fuller  life,  yet  life 
wills  always  by  free  will.  Help  men  to  understand 
this  word,  we  pray  Thee,  O  God. 

Will  Higher,  w^ho  purposes  for  life  while  it  is. 


Will  Higher  Wills  189 

wills  that  life  win  its  freedom  willing  for  its  worth 
itself.  ]Man  who  lives  earth  life  is  life  of  personal 
self.  Will  free,  the  power  of  personal  self,  wins  for 
life  its  worth.  God  made  hfe  for  worth,  made  life 
free  personal  self,  and  the  worth  which  life  finds  is 
by  personal  free  will  won.  But  life  perhaps  wills 
unworthily.  Will  free  life  may  use  well  or  weakly. 
Then  the  purpose  of  Him  M^ho  made  life  free  is 
fulfilled  when  life  wills  its  worth  itself.  Will  for 
life  worthy  life  finds  finally,  but  life  who  uses  free 
will  weakly  or  unworthily  finds  penalty.  What 
penalty?  The  life  of  work  on  earth  again.  That 
penalty  Higher  Will  purposes  for  life  who  in  man 
fails  to  will  for  life  worthy.  Heed  the  word,  man 
who  wills  for  life.  Your  free  will  you  may  use 
well.    Then  think,  and  think  wisely. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  that  free 
will  of  life  win  its  worth  while  it  is  man  and  for- 
ever. Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day  finds,  if 
the  man  wishes,  that  firm,  wise,  free  will  by  which 
life  wins  its  first  worth.  While  life  is  God  purposes 
for  it;  while  life  wills  of  free  will  He  purposes  for 
it ;  when  life  wins  firm,  wise,  free  will,  then  life  ful- 
fills God's  purpose.  When  life  finds  that  firm, 
wise,  free  will  man  chooses  himself.  Then  think 
well,  who  would  win  freedom  for  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  all  life  fulfills,  was 
when  life  which  He  made  was  not.     His  purpose 


190  Man,  The  Life  Free 

follows  life  forever.  That  which  He  purposes  for 
life  the  life  fulfills  by  its  own  free  will  and  purpose. 
Then  this  life  who  is  man  to-day  fulfills  His  pur- 
pose, must,  for  God's  will  is  omnipotent.  Yet  He 
wills  that  by  its  own  free  will  life  fulfill  His  pur- 
pose. JNIan  who  is  life,  think.  What  will  have  you 
to-day  ?  Will  helps  life  if  you  thus  wish ;  will  wins 
freedom  for  life  if  you  thus  wish.  Think  well,  man 
who  is  life,  think  well. 

JNIan  who  lives  earth  life  is  life  who  by  God's 
purpose  lives  after  earth  wider  life.  Will  free  God 
makes  man's  power.  Will  for  life  worthy  He  pur- 
poses that  life  find  while  it  is  man.  Will  for  life 
worthy,  then,  life  finally  wins  while  it  is  man.  But 
will  free  life  may  use  unworthiljT".  Why  has  life 
free  will?  By  God's  purpose  life  wills  for  its  worth 
as  personal  life.  Free  will  He  gives  to  life  per- 
sonal. Will  for  life  worthy  life  wins  while  it  is 
man  by  God's  purpose.  All  lives  who  will  as  men 
while  they  are  men  find  that  will.  None  wills  for 
life  unworthy  for  all  life  on  earth.  What  then 
wills  life's  Maker  for  life  of  man?  Will  for  life 
worthy  that  life  finds  itself.  What  food  for 
thought  I  give  you,  O  men.  Think  why  I  tell  it; 
to  help  men  who  will  freely  to  will  well.  May  this 
word  help  many,  I  pray  God. 

Will  Higher,  whose  purpose  that  which  He 
made  fulfills,  made  life  for  earth  man.    Then  man 


Will  Higher  Wills  191 

fulfills  His  will,  though  He  made  man  free. 
Would  man  free  will  always  as  God  wills  then? 
Why  was  he  made  free  ?  What  help  from  free  will 
were  it  forced  to  win  worth?  Man  free  wills  that 
which  Higher  Will  purposes,  for  the  Will  who 
made  him  free  teaches  him  wise  use  of  free  will. 
God  made  life  free,  wills  that  life  be  finally  taught 
wise  use  of  free  will  while  it  is  man.  Then  man 
who  is  life  finally  wins  worth,  freely  willing,  be- 
cause life  is  by  Will  Higher  taught  wise  use  of  free 
will,  and  that  which  Higher  Will  purposes  life 
taught  fulfills  of  its  own  free  will. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  that  which  He  made 
forever,  wills  for  life  that  He  made  life.  His  will 
governs  that  life  while  it  is.  His  purpose  that  life 
fulfills.  That  which  He  wills  life  fulfills  by  the 
powers  which  He  gives.  Free  will,  free  purpose 
He  wills  shall  fulfill  His  purpose.  His  Purpose 
Omnipotent,  His  Will  Omnipotent,  all  that  He 
made  fulfills.  Higher  Will  of  man's  ^laker  who 
w^lls  for  life  forever  man,  the  life,  fulfills.  All 
that  He  made  fulfills  the  Higher  Will  of  God. 


XV 

FINAL  WORD 


FINAL    ^VOED 

Dr.  Coulter. 

WILL  Higher,  life's  Wilier,  made  life 
for  worth  far  wider  than  that  which 
earth  may  bring.  IMan  who  lives 
earth  life  is  personal  self.  Life  who 
wins  wider  life  remains  personal  self.  Wide  life 
becomes  when  freed  from  earth ;  wider  life  becomes 
to  eternity  then.  IVIan  lives  the  little  life  purposed 
for  life  while  it  wins  worth  for  wider  life.  Man 
prepares  life  for  the  higher  life  beyond  earth.  Will 
Higher  wills  for  life  worth  high  after  earth;  man 
cannot  reach  that  worth;  but  man  prepares  life 
for  the  life  wider  which  finds  that  worth.  Think, 
who  live  man's  life.  Will  Higher  made  you  life, 
purposes  for  you  life  wider,  made  you  free  that 
you  yourself  win  that  life  wider  than  earth  through 
your  own  will  and  purpose.  Think  well  then,  man 
of  life  immortal,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  life  that  by  its  own 
free  will  it  win  that  worth  which  He  purposes  it 
shall  find.  Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  while 

195 


196  Man,  The  Life  Free 

it  is,  made  life  for  earth  man,  made  life  for  wider 
life  than  that  of  man,  wills  for  life  worth  far 
greater  than  it  may  find  while  it  wills  as  man.  His 
purpose  who  made  life  the  life  fulfills.  His  will 
all  life  fulfills.  Man,  the  life  for  whom  Will 
Higher  purposes  worth  for  higher  life,  wins  that 
worth  which  life  has  for  must  to  find  on  earth  using 
his  free  will.  God  wills  that  life  while  it  wills  as 
man  find  worth  for  life  higher  than  man's  life  finds. 
But  while  life  wills  the  will  is  free.  God's  purpose 
for  life  life  fulfills  of  its  own  will.  Life  made  life 
by  God  wins,  using  the  will  He  makes  its  free 
power,  the  worth  He  purposes.  Man,  life  immor- 
tal, wins  by  his  wise  use  of  free  will  the  worth  for 
higher  life  purposed  for  life  personal  when  life  was 
by  Will  Higher  made. 

Man,  who  is  life  personal,  wins  worth  for  wider 
personal  life  by  his  free  will.  His  worth,  which  is 
life's  worth,  wins  for  life  the  wider  life  purposed 
by  God.  While  life  wills  as  man  He  who  purposes 
for  life  forever  wills  that  it  win  worth  for  wider 
life.  His  will  life  fulfills  forever.  No  life  willed 
being  by  Him  fails  to  win  the  worth  that  He  wills 
it  to  find.  Man,  the  life  free,  wills  always  as  he 
wishes ;  man,  the  life  bound  by  God's  piu'pose,  wins 
finally  of  free  will  that  life  wider  purposed  for  life 
personal  when  God  made  life.  Free  will  made 
life's  power  by  its  Maker  fulfills  His  wise  purpose. 


Final  Word  197 

Free  will,  God-willed  power,  man  uses  to  win  the 
worth  of  life  on  earth.  That  free  will  which  God 
gives  to  life  fulfills  His  purpose  for  life.  Will  for 
life  worthy  life  finally  finds  while  it  is  man.  Will 
for  life  worthy,  free  will  wisely  and  firmly  used, 
wins  for  life  personal  the  higher  life  purposed  for 
it  by  God,  its  Maker.  Wise  life  fulfills  finally 
God's  purpose.  Wise  life,  freely  willing  its  worth 
itself,  wins  the  higher  life  which  was  from  the  will- 
ing of  life  purposed  by  God,  life's  Maker. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposed  when  He 
made  life  man  that  by  free  will  life  win  the  worth 
which  fits  it  for  wider  life.  But  man  wills  for  that 
worth  which  Higher  Will  purposes  by  his  free  will. 
Wise  life  becomes  while  it  is  man,  for  all  lives  win 
wider  life.  Fitted  for  earth,  made  life  personal, 
life  who  perceives  itself  as  life  personal  wins,  by 
free  will  that  Higher  Will  made  its  power,  its 
worth.  Wide  life  becomes  when  wise  free  will  has 
won  freedom  from  earth.  But  the  will  is  still  free. 
Wide  life  wills  for  the  yet  wider  worth  which  Will 
Higher  purposes,  using  always  free  will  its  own. 
Man,  who  first  wills  for  life,  who  makes  life  worthy 
by  his  free  choice,  wills  for  life  the  worth  which 
brings  its  first  wider  life.  Then  by  man's  free  will 
life  for  whom  Higher  Will  purposes  wider  life 
wins  the  first  wider  life.  Full  of  meaning  for  men 
is  the  word  I  tell.    Think  upon  it  well,  O  man. 


198  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

ISlan,  the  life  who  wills  for  worth  of  free  will, 
was  willed  his  power,  free  will,  by  his  JNIaker. 
When  by  free  will  man  makes  his  life  worthy,  the 
free  will  which  man's  Maker  gives  to  man  fulfills 
His  purpose  for  life  of  man.  When  free  will,  then, 
man  uses  well,  his  life  fulfills  God's  purpose  for  life 
on  earth.  That  life  will  always  of  free  will  God 
wills ;  that  life  win  its  worth  of  free  will  God  wills. 
But  the  free  will  which  finally  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose man  uses  unworthily  many  times.  What  wills 
life's  Maker  for  that  life  who  wills  on  earth  un- 
worthily? JNIan's  life  again,  which  then  is  made 
penalty.  Will  free,  then,  wins  for  life  worth  for 
this  happy,  free,  full  life,  or  man's  life  again. 
Then  will  free  fulfills  God's  will  if  the  man  thus 
chooses.  For  the  man  who  to-day  wills  for  life  this- 
word  will  be  help  we  hope.  Think  well,  O  man; 
we  help  you  if  you  think  well.  Free,  full,  happy 
life  will  be  won  by  every  life  immortal ;  yet  the  man 
himself,  free  of  will  always,  chooses  when  that  life 
be  won.  Think  then  well,  you  who  will  for  life  im- 
mortal, think  well. 

What  purposes  God  for  life?  That  for  life  wor- 
thy it  will  while  it  is  man.  But  His  purpose  life 
fulfills  when  thus  it  chooses.  For  life  worthy  each 
life  finally  wills;  all  lives  finally  choose  to  find  will 
for  life  worthy.  Will  free,  life's  power,  made  free 
by  hfe's  jNlaker,  fulfills  His  purpose  for  life.    Man 


Final  Word  199 

who  wills  for  life  worthy  thus  fulfills  God's  pur- 
pose. What  food  for  thought  for  men  this  gives! 
Think  upon  it  well,  man  who  is  life.  Think  what 
man  finds  by  free  will  if  thus  he  wishes — worth  for 
freed  life.  Freed  life  wills  for  far  wider  worth 
than  life  on  earth  finds.  Freed  life  wills  of  free 
will.  All  lives  made  by  God  fulfill  as  He  pur- 
poses His  will.  Made  free,  willed  life  wider, 
'^ach    life   wins    of   free    will    the   worth    for   life 

ider.  Help  men  to  understand,  we  pray  thee, 
O  God. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Wilier,  man's  Maker,  was 
when  life  whom  He  willed  was  not.  He  wills  for 
the  life  whom  He  made  wide  life  beyond  the  little 
life  of  earth,  wide,  full,  worthy  life,  firm  life,  will- 
ing for  worth  always;  this  for  life  wills  its  Maker, 
God.  What  for  life  on  earth  wills  its  Maker? 
Worth  finally,  will  firm  for  life  worthy  finally. 
What  follows  life  on  earth?  Freed  life,  freed  life 
won  through  man's  will  used  firmly  and  well;  for 
life  of  man  He  wills  this  future.  Think  then,  man 
who  wills  this  time  for  life  on  earth.  His  purpose 
who  made  your  life  will  be  fulfilled.  Why  fail  to 
fulfill  that  purpose  this  time  on  earth?  That  free 
will  which  He  gives  fulfills  His  purpose,  but  only 
when  free  will  has  won  the  firm  life  which  God 
purposes  does  He  free  life  from  man.  Then,  you 
who  will  for  life,  think.     Why  let  purpose  fail? 


200  Man,  The  Life  Free 

For  life  worthy  purpose  firmly  always.    Thus  win 
this  fuller,  worthier,  happier  life. 

Will  Higher  wills  for  life  whom  He  made  worth 
for  wider  life  than  that  of  earth.  Will  Higher 
wills  for  life  whom  He  made  worth  for  His  pres- 
ence finally.  That  worth  will  be  found  by  life  free 
to  will  as  it  wishes.  But  free  will  beyond  man's 
life  is  firm  for  life  worthy.  Then  will  which  life 
may  use  worthily  or  unworthily  is  worthily  used 
when  life  has  won  freed  Hfe?  Yes,  life  wills  for 
life  worthy  firmly  then.  But  will  for  hfe  worthy 
is  free  will  still.  What  is  freed  life?  Men  would 
but  partly  understand  were  we  to  try  to  tell.  Freed 
life  is  wider  life,  the  Universe  its  working-place. 
Freed  life  wills  for  wider  life  than  that  which  it 
had  while  it  was  man.  For  life  worthy  freed  life 
wills  firmly,  yet  uses  free  will.  For  life  worthy 
freed  life  purposes  firmly,  yet  purpose  is  free. 
Man  wins  that  firm  purpose  by  which  life  wins  its 
wider  worth,  and  while  life  is  man  on  earth  that 
firm  purpose  will  be  won.  For  life  while  it  wins 
that  worth  which  its  Maker  purposes  the  will  and 
purpose  will  forever  be  free,  yet  life  wills  for  life 
worthj^  when  freed.  What  for  life  wills  its  Maker? 
Worth  won  always  of  free  will;  worth  finally  for 
His  presence  won  of  free  will.  Will  free  wins  life's 
worth  forever;  will  firm,  free  will  made  firm  while 
life  is  man,  free  will  which  life's  Maker  wills  to 


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be  life's  power  forever,  wins  life's  worth  forever. 

Man,  the  personal  life,  wills  that  which  he 
wishes ;  man,  the  life  purposed  worth  by  God,  wins 
finally  the  worth  which  God  wills  that  he  find. 
Man  who  is  life  personal  wills  by  personal  free  will ; 
man,  the  life  bound  by  Higher  Will,  wills  finally 
that  which  Higher  Will  purposes.  Will  free,  then, 
wins  for  life  the  worth  purposed  by  life's  Maker. 
Will  worthy  life  finds  finally,  taught  by  the  life 
which  God  wills  to  be  teaching,  the  life  of  man  on 
earth.  Then  man  who  wills  that  which  he  wishes, 
when  life  is  taught  by  the  purposed  life  on  earth 
wins  by  free  will,  and  of  free  choice,  that  worth 
which  God  purposes  that  life  find  on  earth.  Will 
Higher  wills;  the  life  whom  He  made  free  ful- 
fills His  purpose. 

Will  Higher,  God  who  made  the  Universe,  Will 
Higher,  God  who  willed  life  its  being.  Will  Higher, 
God  who  governs  all  that  He  willed  being,  was 
when  all  that  is  the  Universe  was  not.  He  Om- 
nipotent, Omnipresent,  Will  who  wills  for  life  for- 
ever. Will  who  purposes  for  life  while  He  wills  it 
to  be  life.  Will  who  made  life  man,  He  wills  for 
life  while  it  is  man,  while  it  is.  jMan,  His  creature, 
wills  with  the  will  He  gives;  man  purposes  with 
the  purpose  He  gives;  man,  finite  life,  fulfills  by 
finite  will  and  purpose  His  Omnipotent  purpose; 
man,  finite  life,  wins  by  his  free  purpose  the  wider 


202  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

finite  life  which  He  who  made  hfe  purposes.  While 
life  is  God  wills  for  it;  while  life  is  God  purposes 
for  it;  while  life  is  life  fulfills  His  purpose.  Will 
Higher,  Will  of  Omnipotent  God,  rules  all  that  is 
forever. 

Wilberforce. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
while  it  is.  His  purpose  life  which  He  made  ful- 
fills. He  wills  for  life  worth  for  wider  life.  Life 
worthy  of  man  wins  that  wider  life.  ]Man,  who 
wills  of  free  will,  himself  wins  that  worth  which 
brings  wider  life.  Help  men  to  understand  our 
word,  we  pray  thee,  O  God. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  worth 
won  by  life's  free  will.  No  free  life  would  win 
forced  worth.  God  makes  life  free;  His  will  life 
free  fulfills.  Using  free  will  life  wins  that  worth 
which  Will  Higher  purposed  when  He  made  life. 
Will  free  that  He  wills  to  life  fulfills  His  purpose 
for  life.  Will  free,  life's  power,  wins  life's  worth 
forever.  Will  for  life  worthy,  free  will  well  and 
wisely  used,  wins  life's  wider,  fuller  life.  Think, 
man  who  is  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  man's  Maker,  purposes  for  life 
wider  life  than  that  of  man.  Wide  life  begins  when 
life  by  firm  purpose  its  own  has  won  freedom. 
Wide  life  won,  life  wins  yet  wider,  fuller,  worthier 


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life.  But  what  frees  life  from  earth?  JNIan's  free 
purpose  firmly  used  for  life  worthy.  Then,  man 
who  wills  for  life,  think  well,  tliink  wisely.  What 
frees  life  from  earth?  Man's  firm  purpose.  What 
wins  yet  wider  life?  The  purpose  made  firm  for 
life  w^orthy  by  man.  Think  well,  you  who  would 
win  that  higher  life.  Wide  life  becomes  when  life 
by  man's  firm  purpose  has  won  freedom;  high  life 
becomes  when  purpose  firm  has  been  found;  that 
high  life  which  God  purposes,  wide  life  full  of 
worth,  begins  when  by  man's  firm  purpose  life 
frees  itself.  Think  well,  man  who  is  life,  think 
well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  who  for  life  purposes 
forever,  wills  for  life  far  wider  life  than  that  of 
man.  What  purposes  He  for  life?  Worth  high, 
worth  great,  worth  for  His  presence  finally.  Will 
free  must  make  life  worthy  high  life ;  will  free  must 
make  life  worthy  great  life;  will  free  must  make 
life  worthy  its  JNIaker's  presence.  Think  then, 
while  life  wills  this  time,  that  life  find  worth  for 
high  life.  Think  while  life  is  man  for  life  wider. 
Think  now  for  life  well.  What  life  finds  worth 
for  higher,  greater,  worthier  life?  This  life  finds 
that  worth  finally.  But  this  life  wins  its  worth  it- 
self, this  life  wins  its  worth  using  free  will.  Then 
how  has  this  life  willed  for  life  this  time,  well  or 
ill?    This  life  wins  freedom  willing  well,  wins  life 


204  Man,  The  Life  Free 

on  earth  again  willing  ill.  Then  think,  man  who 
is  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  Him  who  wills  for  life  for- 
ever. Will  that  all  His  Universe  fulfills.  Will  of 
Omnipotent  God,  made  life  man.  What  purposes 
life's  Maker  for  that  life?  Wide,  full,  happy  life, 
firm  life,  full  of  firm  will  and  purpose,  full  with 
worth  He  purposes.  Then  life  who  wills  on  earth 
wins  that  wide  life  which  its  Maker  purposes.  But 
life  wills  of  free  will,  worth  of  life  free  is  won  by 
free  will.  Then  He  who  made  life  free  wills  that 
by  free  will  life  fulfill  His  purpose.  No  life  but 
finds  by  free  will  that  worth  which  God  purposes; 
yet  life  wills  always  by  free  will.  Man,  the  life 
on  earth,  wins  his  worth  of  free  will ;  life  wider  wins 
its  worth  by  free  will.  No  life  fails  to  find  free 
will  the  help  which  God  purposes  it  shall  be.  When 
free  life  wills  for  life  worthy  firmly,  then  God 
wills  for  it  wide  life,  full  life,  firm  purpose  for  life 
worthy  while  life  is.  Man  who  is  life  to-day,  think 
well. 

Will  Higher,  who  wills  for  the  life  whom  He 
made  forever,  Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  that 
life  while  it  is,  wills  for  that  life  wider  life  than 
that  of  man,  wills  for  that  life  far  wider  worth  than 
that  which  man  finds.  What  purposes  He  for  life? 
Wider  life,  fuller  life,  far  greater  life  than  that 
of  earth.    Wise  life  becomes  while  it  wills  for  that 


Final  Word  205 

wider  worth  which  God  purposes.  Wide  life  be- 
comes when  it  has  won  freedom  from  earth.  Wide 
Hfe  finds  yet  wider  life  willing  for  its  worth  by  free 
will.  Wide  life  wins  far  wider  life  than  life  may 
understand  till  God  frees  it  from  man.  Wide  life, 
willing  for  worth  freely,  wins  that  far  greater 
worth  which  God  purposes.  Man  wins  by  his  free 
will  the  first  wider  life.  Life  freed  then  wins  the 
wider  worth  which  God  purposes  using  for  life 
worthy  its  free  will.  All  lives  win  that  worth 
which  God  purposes ;  none  fails  to  win  that  worth. 
Freed  life,  willing  for  life  worthy  itself,  fulfills, 
as  life  of  man  fulfills,  God's  wise  purpose.  No  life 
can  fail  to  win  that  life  wider,  that  worth  far 
greater  than  that  of  man.  All  lives  finally  win 
that  worth  which  fits  life  for  its  Maker's  presence. 
That  will  which  God  gives,  free  will,  wins  for  life 
that  wider  life,  that  far  greater  worth,  which  Will 
Higher  purposed  when  He  made  life.  Glorious 
thought  for  men!  Wide  life  begins  when  man  has 
won  for  his  life  freedom. 

Think  well,  man  who  wills  for  life  to-day.  When 
by  will  your  own,  free  will,  you  win  life  worthy, 
you  win  for  life  wider  life.    Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  this 
higher  life  when  free  will,  life's  free  power,  has 
made  life  worthy  life  higher.  Will  for  life  worthy 
then,  man  who  is  life,  will  for  worthy  life  this  time 


206  Man,  The  Life  Free 

while  you  will  as  man.  This  time  will  firm  wins 
freedom  if  this  man  purposes  firmly.  Wide  life 
begins  then,  full,  happy,  free  life.  Well  for  men 
to  think  what  life  finds  of  firm  purpose  well  and 
wisely  used, — this  full,  happy,  free  life. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  wider,  fuller 
life  than  that  of  earth,  makes  life  free,  wills  that 
life  by  free  will  find  worth  for  the  wider  life  which 
He  purposes.  His  will  that  which  He  made  ful- 
fills. All  lives  made  by  Him  win  the  wider  life. 
Will  free  of  life  man  uses.  That  will  life  has  by 
the  purpose  of  God.  That  will,  free  always,  wins 
for  life  the  worth  for  the  wider  life  purposed  by 
God  when  He  willed  life  into  being. 

Then  this  life  who  is  man  will  find  the  worth  for 
wider,  fuller  life,  but  this  life  finds  that  worth  by 
free  will  wisely  and  firmly  used.  Will  free,  the 
will  which  this  man  has,  will  free,  the  will  which 
this  life  uses  well  or  ill  as  this  man  wishes,  wins 
finally  that  worth  which  God  purposes.  And  the 
will  which  you,  the  man,  now  use  must  win  for  you, 
the  life,  that  which  wins  wider,  fuller,  happier  life. 
Think  well,  man  who  wills  for  life  to-day,  think 
well. 

Will  Higher,  will  of  Him  who  wills  for  all  that 
He  made,  wills  for  life  of  man  worth  that  brings 
wider,  higher  life.  Worth  willed  by  Him  life  wins 
using  its  own  free  will.     Worth  which  life  finds 


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freely  willing  for  life  worthy  itself  wins  for  life 
the  higher  life  purposed  by  God,  life's  Maker. 
Well  for  life  purposes  He.  Man,  the  life  personal. 
He  makes  free;  will  of  personal  life  fulfills  God's 
purpose  for  personal  life;  when  by  personal  free 
will  life  wins  that  worth  which  He  purposes,  He 
frees  that  life  from  earth.  Wise  the  life  becomes 
working  the  work  which  He  wills  to  be  teaching. 
No  life  fails  to  learn  the  firm  purpose  which  wins 
life  wider.  Have  we  made  you  understand,  who 
read?  Will  free,  man's  own  will,  wins  that  worth 
which  Will  Higher  wills  that  life  find.  When  by 
free  will  life  becomes  worthy  wider  life,  God  frees 
the  life  from  earth.  Have  you  who  will  for  life 
won  that  worth?  Think  well,  man  who  is  life, 
think  well. 

Miltiades. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  Will  who  purposes 
for  life  while  it  is,  made  life  for  earth  man.  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  life  while  it  is  man;  Will 
Higher  purposes  for  life  forever.  The  life  made 
by  Him  fulfills  His  purpose.  Man  then,  who  wills 
of  free  will,  fulfills  the  Higher  Will  for  life  made 
man.  Man  who  wills  for  his  worth  himself,  since 
Will  Higher  made  life  free,  fulfills  that  Higher 
Purpose  who  wills  that  life  find  worth  on  earth. 
That  purpose  which  God  wills  to  be  life's  power. 


208  Man,  The  Life  Free 

free  purpose,  fulfills  for  life  God's  purpose.  Man 
who  is  life,  man  who  wills  for  worth  when  he  thus 
wishes,  is  life  who  fulfills  God's  purposes.  Man 
then,  life  on  earth,  wins  by  his  free  purpose  the 
worth  which  God  purposed  for  life  on  earth  when 
He  made  life. 

Will  Higher,  who  purposes  for  life  that  it  find 
worth  for  life  higher  willing  its  worth  by  free  will, 
made  life  personal  self  whose  power,  will,  He  made 
free.  When  by  free  will  life  wins  that  worth  which 
Higher  Will  purposes,  life  wins  wider  life.  Then 
life  itself  wins  that  freedom  which  Higher  Will 
purposes  for  it.  Life's  free  will,  made  life's  power 
by  life's  Maker,  fulfills  His  purpose.  When  by 
free  will  life  makes  itself  worthy  freedom,  life  wins 
that  wider  life  purposed  by  God  M'hen  life  was  by 
Him  made.  Will  free  of  life,  will  free  made  life's 
power  by  Will  Higher,  fulfills  for  life  the  purpose 
of  its  Maker.  When  by  wise  free  will  life  wins  this 
life  it  is  freed  from  earth  forever,  freed  from  weak 
purj^ose  forever.  Wise  life  frees  itself  then?  Yes, 
for  life  by  God's  purpose  wills  that  worth  which 
brings  freedom.  Wise  the  man  who,  firmly  will- 
ing, makes  his  life  worthy.  Thus  he  wins  for  his 
life  immortal  wider,  fuller,  happier  life.  Man  who 
wills  for  life,  think. 

Will  Higher  purposes  for  life  worth  far  wider 
than  that  which  it  finds  as  man.    He  purposes  for 


Final  Word  '  209 

life  Avorth  far  wider  than  life  on  earth  may  find. 
When  by  life's  free  will  that  worth  which  He  pur- 
poses for  life  on  earth  is  won,  He  translates  life 
to  wider,  fuller  life.  His  will  life  to  whom  He  wills 
free  will  fulfills  of  free  will.  His  purpose  for  life 
to  whom  He  wills  free  purpose  free  purpose  ful- 
fills. Man,  life  free,  by  free  will  and  purpose  ful- 
fills His  purpose  for  life  on  earth.  Then  life  who 
wills  to-day  fulfills  of  free  will  His  purpose.  What 
has  life  from  Him  for  help?  Work  that  teaches 
wise  free  will  and  purpose.  What  for  life  free 
purposes  He?  Wider  life  won  by  its  free  will  and 
purpose.  Then  the  life  who  wills  as  man  to-day 
may,  if  this  man  wishes,  fulfill  His  purpose  that 
personal  life,  immortal  life,  find  worth  for  higher 
life.  Think,  who  will  for  life  this  time  on  earth, 
think  well. 

Will  Higher  who  is  life's  Maker,  Will  Higher 
who  purposes  for  the  life  whom  He  made,  wills 
that  life  find  wider  life.  His  purpose  life  fulfills 
forever.  But  free  life  neglects  its  duty  many 
times;  free  life  wills  for  unworthiness  perhaps. 
Then  Will  Higher  penalizes  life.  What  penalty 
imposes  He  upon  life  who  neglects  its  duty?  What 
penalty  imposes  He  upon  life  who  wills  for  unwor- 
thiness? Work  of  life  on  earth  again.  This  life 
works  the  work  purposed  for  life  who  wills  well. 
For  life  who  wills  for  unworthiness,  life  of  man 


210  Man,  The  Life  Free 

again,  work  of  man  again.  Wliat  is  the  work  which 
man  has?  Work  purposed  to  teach  wise,  firm  will 
and  purpose.  When  life  finds  wise  will  and  pur- 
pose Will  Higher  frees  that  life  from  work  and  life 
of  earth.  When  life  wins  the  worth  which  God 
purposes,  freely  willing,  freely  purposing,  God 
wills  for  that  life,  wider,  fuller  life.  Think  then, 
man  who  is  life,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  which 
He  made  wide  life,  full  life,  happy  life,  when  man 
by  his  free  will  and  purpose  makes  life  worthy 
wider  life.  Will  Higher  purposes  that  life  free  it- 
self from  earth.  Man  then,  life  of  personal  self, 
wills  when  that  life  win  freedom  from  earth.  Think 
what  I  tell,  man  who  is  life  immortal.  Win  this 
life  the  life  may  this  time;  but  win  it  life  must  by 
man's  life  worthy.  That  higher  life  which  God 
purposes  for  immortal  personal  self  will,  and  must 
be  won  by  man.  Think,  man  who  wills  for  life 
to-day,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  the  life 
whom  He  made  forever.  His  will  all  that  He 
willed  being  obeys.  The  firm  purpose  which  he 
wills  that  life  find  on  earth  life  finds ;  the  firm  free 
purpose  which  life  has  when  freed  life  wins  of  its 
own  free  will;  yet  God  purposes  that  life  find  firm 
purpose  on  earth.  Man  wills  for  his  worth  himself, 
yet  God  wills  that  life  of  man  find  worth.    His  will 


Final  Word  211 

life  of  man  obeys.  That  life  win  freedom  willing 
its  worth  itself  He  purposes.  Then  man  who  wills 
firmly  that  his  life  be  worthy  wins  for  personal  life 
the  wider  life  which  God  purposes.  His  free  will 
wins  that  worth  which  fits  life  for  higher  life. 
Think  then,  man  who  is  life,  think  well.  That  you 
who  use  free  will  use  it  well  finally  God  purposes; 
yet  you  are  free.  Why  let  weak  will  hold  your 
life  to  earth? 

Higher  life  God  wills  for  life  who  is  on  earth 
man.  Wider,  fuller,  happier  life  He  wills  for  self 
of  man.  His  will  life  fulfills  as  He  wills,  by  wise 
use  of  personal  free  will.  His  purpose  life  fulfills 
by  the  way  He  wills,  wise  use  of  personal  purpose. 
Man,  life  personal,  wills  his  worth  himself,  though 
that  worth  is  by  God  purposed.  This  life  who  is 
man  to-day  will  win  the  worth  which  God  pur- 
poses, and  this  life  will  win  it  choosing  worth  itself. 
But  this  life  to-day  wills  unworthily.  Will  this 
life  win  freedom  this  time  then?  Not  till  will  free 
is  used  firmly  for  worth  is  life  freed.  Man  who 
is  life,  think.  Think  what  this  life  may  find,  you 
willing  firmly  and  well.  Freed  life,  wide  life,  full 
life,  happy  life,  life  firm  forever  too,  will  this  life 
find  if  you,  the  man,  find  firm  will  and  purpose. 
Think  well,  then,  man  who  is  life,  think  well. 

Purpose  Higher,  purpose  of  Him  who  made  life 
free,  follows  life  while  it  is.    Will  free  life  is  given 


212  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

by  Him;  will  free  fulfills  His  purpose;  will  free 
win's  life's  worth  while  it  purposes  on  earth  and 
forever;  will  free,  man's  power,  life's  power  too, 
wins  for  life  the  worth  for  first  wider  life;  will 
free,  life's  power,  wins  the  wider  worth  which  God 
purposes ;  will  free  given  to  life  by  its  Maker,  God, 
fulfills  while  life  is  God's  purpose.  Man  who  wills 
this  time  for  life  on  earth,  will  free,  your  free  will, 
wins  that  wider  worth  finally.  For  will  firm  pur- 
pose then  always,  for  by  free  will  firmly  used  for 
life  worthy  must,  and  will  finally,  that  life  who  is 
you  to-day  win  its  first  wider  life,  and  its  worth 
while  it  is.  Life  free  wins  wider  life.  Will  life 
of  this  man  win  wider  life?  Surely,  but  when  this 
life  determines  of  free  choice.  When  by  your  free 
will  you  win  life  wider  you  enter  upon  glorious, 
happy  life.    Think  then,  O  man,  think  well. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  will  of  Him  who  is 
Omnipotent  God,  wills  for  life  forever.  Worth 
won  by  free  will  He  wills  that  life  find.  Worth 
which  wins  for  life  this  wider  life  He  wills;  worth 
for  His  presence  finally  He  wills  that  life  find. 
But  will  of  life  is  free.  Then  that  worth  which  God 
wills  for  life  life  finds  by  free  will  its  own.  Life 
personal,  life  free,  finally  of  free  will  wins  wider 
life.  Life  immortal  wins  of  free  will  worth  to 
immortality.    What  wills  life's  Maker?    That  life 


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forever  will  of  free  will ;  that  life  find  finally  worth 
for  His  presence.  That  will  which  Will  Higher 
makes  life's  power,  free  will  of  personal  self,  wins 
that  worth  which  fits  life  for  its  Maker's  presence. 
What  food  for  thought  we  give  you,  O  men.  Think 
what  God  wills  for  you,  man  who  wills  for  life 
to-day.  Think  how  you  find  worth  of  life.  By 
your  own  free  will  you  find  it.  By  your  own  will 
life  finds  freedom.  By  will  free  life  wins  worth  for 
its  INIaker's  presence.  You  who  will  for  life  to-day 
win  finally  that  worth.  But  for  this  life  of  man  you 
will  weakly  perhaps.  Then  Will  Higher  purposes 
for  you  further  work  of  man.  Think  well,  who 
would  win  freedom.  You  win  it  firmly  purposing 
worth  yourself;  you  win  this  life  when  by  man's 
life  worthy  you  make  life  personal  fit  for  this  life. 
Think  well,  O  man. 

Will  Higher,  life's  Maker,  wills  for  life  that  it 
win  wider  life  through  the  life  of  man  on  earth. 
That  thought  men  need,  for  too  often  they  think 
for  life  of  earth  only.  That  thought  which  helps 
life  of  man  we  tell  that  men  may  win  this  life  more 
quickly.  Full  of  meaning  for  men  is  the  word 
this  life  tells  for  help.  Word  full  of  help  men  will 
find  it  if  they  think  well.  This  life,  won  while  life 
is  man,  this  life  full  of  happy  purpose,  the  man 
who  lives  now  may  win.    Then  think  well,  O  men. 


214  3Ian,  The  Life  Free 

Dr.  Coulter. 

Has  the  word  helped  the  man  who  reads?  Has 
it  helped  him  to  firm  purpose  for  worthy  life? 

We  pray  God  to  bless  our  work  for  help  with 
His  blessing. 


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